Osanyin
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
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