Orisha List

Osanyin is the Spirit of Vegetation, especially when it comes to their healing and/or magickal properties. You can’t make any effective herbal concoction without Osanyin’s help, whether you know it or not. Osanyin has a profound knowledge of, and insight in, the secrets of plants and of whatever you can do with them. Osanyin “works” for all people, not just for his priests and followers; in this sense he belongs in the same category as Orunmila/Ifa and Eshu.

Osanyin is often depicted with one leg, and with one ear shrivelled while the other is truly enormous. Oddly enough he doesn’t hear a darn thing with the large ear, and even the tiniest whisper with the shrivelled one. He is celibate.

Source: Osanyin, the Spirit of Vegetation, United Chaplains Corp

Alternate spellings: Osain, Ossain, Osayin

In this camino, Shango is the godson of Osain.

Source: Canizares, Baba Raul. Shango. Santería and the Orisha of Thunder, New York: Original Publications. 2000.

Alternate spellings: Chango, Sango
Alternate spellings: Osayin

Eshu Iseri is the Eshu of the Morning Dew. The early morning is the best time to pick fresh herbs for healing purposes; this is an Eshu that works closely with Osanyin.

Source: Eshu, the Spirit of the Trickster

A great friend of Osain; works with this Orisa and his ewe (herbs).
Source: Paths of Esu/Eleggua