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Death, Fate & Illness Orisa

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These Orisa govern death, disease, fate, and the forces that mark the boundary of life. Babalu-Aye heals and punishes with sickness; Oya escorts the dead; Egungun honors the ancestral dead.

11 Orisa in this category

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11 Orisa

Babalu-Aye

Father, Lord of the Earth; He Who Heals the Earth of Its Afflictions

Deified King / Man Male 13,17

Smallpox Disease Healing Earth +5 more

Babalu-Aye is the Orisa of earth, disease, and miraculous healing — once mortal, elevated to divinity through the transforming power of his own suffer

Yewa

also: Yewa Ayaba

The Virgin River; Guardian of the Grave; She Who Lives Among the Dead

Nature Orisa Female 7

Death The grave Virginity Purity +4 more

Yewa is the Orisa of the grave and of sacred secrets — a modest, virginal deity who governs the boundary between the visible and invisible, the living

Aje Ibi

She Who Brings the Pain of Birth; Birth as Both Wound and Gift

Nature Orisa Female 7

Birth pain The transition of birth The sacred wound of delivery New life

Aje Ibi is the Orisa of the birth process — the divine force that makes the painful and powerful event of bringing a new life into the world sacred.

Sango Oba Ile

also: Oba Ile Sango

Sango as King of the House; Domestic Lightning

Deified King / Man Male 4,6

Domestic fire The lightning that enters a home Sango's domestic aspect The king who rules the household

Sango Oba Ile is the domestic aspect of Sango — governing the lightning that visits homes and the sacred understanding of lightning-struck spaces.

Iyaami Ajogun

also: Iyaami Eleye

The Dark Mothers Who Punish; Female Adversarial Power

Ajogun Female 3

The punishing mothers Female adversarial power used for justice The mothers who enforce moral law The terrible grandmothers

Iyaami Ajogun is the adversarial, punishing aspect of the Great Mothers — the collective female divine power that enforces moral law through punishmen

Oya Onile

also: Onile Oya

Oya of the Earth; She Who Guards the Cemetery Gate

Primordial Orisa Female 9

Cemetery guardian The gate of the dead Earth at the point of death Transition guardian

Oya Onile is the cemetery guardian avatar of Oya — the fierce wind goddess focused on the sacred boundary between the living world and the ancestral r

Ori

The Personal Destiny; The Head That Chooses Before Birth

Cosmic Orisa Non_binary

The Personal Destiny; The Head That Chooses Before Birth

Ojiji

The Shadow; The Orisa of One's Spiritual Double

Cosmic Orisa Non_binary

The Shadow; The Orisa of One's Spiritual Double

Ofo Oso

The Double Loss; Loss Upon Loss

Ajogun Non_binary

The Double Loss; Loss Upon Loss

Osanyin Ori

Osanyin of the Head; Medicine for the Sacred Head

Nature Orisa Male

Osanyin of the Head; Medicine for the Sacred Head

Ogun Ajanaku

Ogun of the Elephant; Iron That Cannot Be Stopped

Primordial Orisa Male

Ogun of the Elephant; Iron That Cannot Be Stopped

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About Death, Fate & Illness Orisa

These Orisa govern death, disease, fate, and the forces that mark the boundary of life. Babalu-Aye heals and punishes with sickness; Oya escorts the dead; Egungun honors the ancestral dead.

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