List of Yoruba deities

The following is a list of Yoruba Orisha, or deities.

Supreme being

The Supreme God has three manifestations:

• Eledumare - the Supreme Creator.
• Ọlọ́run - the ruler of the Heavens.
• Olofi - the conduit between Orún (Heaven) and Ayé (Earth)

Metaphysical Personifications or Spirits

• Orunmila - spirit of wisdom, divination, destiny, and foresight
• Ori - personification of one's spiritual intuition and destiny

Male Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)

• Aganjú - Orisha of volcanoes, the wilderness and rivers
• Babalú Ayé - Orisha of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease and healing
• Erinlẹ̀ - Orisha of medicine, healing, and comfort, physician to the gods
• Èṣù - trickster, psychopomp and Orisha of crossroads, duality, beginnings, travelers, fertility and death
• Ibeji - twin Orisha of vitality and youth
• Kokou - a violent warrior Orisha
• Ọbàtálá - creator of human bodies; Orisha of light, spiritual purity, and moral uprightness
• Oduduwa - Orisha of Humans
• Ògún - Orisha who presides over iron, fire, hunting, politics and war
• Oko - Orisha of agriculture
• Osanyin - Orisha of the forest
• Oṣùmàrè - divine rainbow serpent associated with creation and procreation
• Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì - Orisha of the hunt and forest
• Ṣàngó, also Shango - Orisha of thunder and lightning
• Sopona - Orisha of smallpox, also known as Babalu Aye

Female Àwọn Òrìṣà (Orishas)

• Aja - Orisha of the forest, the animals within it, and herbal healing
• Aje - Orisha of wealth
• Ayao - Orisha of air
• Egungun-oya - Orisha of divination
• Mawu - creator goddess, associated with the sun and moon
• Nana Buluku - androgynous Supreme Creator
• Ọbà - first wife of Shango and Orisha of domesticity and marriage
• 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
• Ọya - Orisha of the Niger River; associated with wind, lightning, fertility, fire, and magic
• Yemọja - a mother goddess; patron deity of women, and the Ogun river