Osun across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas

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Contents List of Illustrations / vii Orthography / ix 1. Introduction / 1 Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford 2. Hidden Power: O .̀ s .un, the Seventeenth Odù / 10 Rowland Abiodun 3. A River of Many Turns: The Polysemy of Ochún in AfroCuban Tradition / 34 Isabel Castellanos 4. Òrı̀s .à O .̀ s .un: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Òs .ogbo, Nigeria / 46 Jacob K. Olupona 5. Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo é d’Oxum: In This City Everyone Is Oxum’s / 68 Ieda Machado Ribeiro dos Santos 6. Mãe Menininha / 84 Manuel Vega 7. Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror / 87 Joseph M. Murphy 8. Osun and Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology / 102 Cornelius O. Adepegba 9. Overflowing with Beauty: The Ochún Altar in Lucumı́ Aesthetic Tradition / 113 Ysamur Flores-Peña 10. Authority and Discourse in the Orin O . dún O .̀ s .un / 128 Diedre L. Badejo 11. The Bag of Wisdom: O .̀ s .un and the Origins of the Ifá Divination / 141 ’Wande Abimbola 12. Ochun in the Bronx / 155 George Brandon 13. “What Part of the River You’re In”: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun / 165 Rachel Elizabeth Harding 14. E . e .́rı̀ndı́nlógún: The Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones / 189 David O. Ogungbile 15. Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda / 213 Lindsay Hale 16. An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo / 230 Tânia Cypriano 17. Living Water: O .̀ s .un, Mami Wata, and Olókùn in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women / 237 Mei-Mei Sanford 18. Orchestrating Water and the Wind: Oshun’s Art in Atlantic Context / 251 Robert Farris Thompson Contributors / 263 Index / 267 contents viii ...