Oshun, also known as Oxum or Osun, is the revered Yoruba goddess of love, beauty, prosperity, and fertility. As a powerful and compassionate deity, she offers her followers guidance, healing, and protection.
Oshun (also known as Osun or Oxum) is considered the most beautiful of all Orishas in Yoruba Mythology. We can understand her as a Goddess of love, beauty, and wealth.
Oshun, also known as Oxum and Ochún, is a supreme being or Orisha of the Yoruba people – the largest ethnic group of southwestern Nigeria. In the Yoruba religion, she’s also called the river goddess and is commonly associated with fresh and sweet waters, love, purity, prosperity, fertility, and beauty.
Oxum is the female Orixá of love and beauty and is the only female Orixá believed to have participated in the creation of the world. She overlaps with many of the other Orixá, with dominion over fresh water, fish, mermaids, and butterflies.
With the impact of the transatlantic slave trade and dispersion of Yoruba culture, Oshun is also an important figure outside Africa, where she is known by other names, such as Oxum in Brazil and Ochún in Cuba.
Oshun (also spelled Ochún, Oṣun or Oxum) is the youngest of the orishas and probably the most popular in Santeria. She was the last orisha born in the world out of Olodumare's love for creation.
Oxum embodies the natural energy of water. She is usually represented near a freshwater source, a river, a waterfall, but she is found in any type of water source.
About Oxum – The mother of the Orixás Oxum is named after the Osun River and is the guardian of all fresh waters – rivers, lakes and waterfalls – and of the gold mines and riches of the natural subsoil. Daughter of Oxalá, she is also the Orixá of beauty and protector of motherhood.