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Deity Yoruba people

Oshun

Òṣun yo

The youngest of the orisha, this goddess is associated with sexuality, fertility, and femininity

  • Also called Oshun ikole

A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.

Accounts kept apart

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Connections

How Oshun connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 3

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply that the culture was religiously uniform · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Attribute 1

What this means

A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.

Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

4 statements on this record

  • 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Samuel Tobbytex007 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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