List of Yoruba deities
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The following is a list of Yoruba deities
Supreme being
- Ọlọ́run - the supreme creator deity also known as Olodumare wha
Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)
- Aganjú - Orisha of volcanoes, the wilderness and rivers
- Aja - Orisha of the forest, the animals within it, and herbal healing
- Ayao - Orisha of air
- Babalú Ayé - Orisha of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease (particularly smallpox, leprosy and AIDS) and healing
- Egungun-oya - Orisha of divination
- Erinlẹ̀ - Orisha of medicine, healing, and comfort, physician to the gods
- Èṣù - trickster, psychopomp and Orisha of crossroads, duality, beginnings, travelers, fertility and death
- Kokou - a violent warrior Orisha
- Oba - first wife of Shango and Orisha of domesticity and marriage
- Ọbàtálá - creator of human bodies; Orisha of light, spiritual purity, and moral uprightness
- Ògún - Orisha who presides over iron, fire, hunting, politics and war
- Olókun - patron Orisha of the descendants of Africans who were carried away during the Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage
- Ọ̀ṣun - Orisha who presides over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy
- Oṣùmàrè - divine rainbow serpent associated with creation and procreation
- Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì - Orisha of the hunt and forest
- Ọya - Orisha of the Niger River; associated with wind, lightning, fertility, fire, and magic
- Sopona - Orisha of smallpox
- Ṣàngó - Orisha of thunder and lightning
- Yemọja - a mother goddess; patron deity of women, and the Ogun river
Irunmole
- Orunmila - spirit of wisdom, divination, destiny, and foresight
