Description: Preliminary Table of Contents: Illustrations Preface Orthography 1Introduction: Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford 2Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu Rowland Abiodun 3A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochn in Afro-Cuban Tradition Isabel Castellanos 4Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria Jacob Olupona 5Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's Ieda M. R. dos Santos 6Me Menininha Manuel Vega 7Yy Cachita: Ochn in a Cuban Mirror Joseph M. Murphy 8Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology C.O. Adepegba 9Overflowing with Beauty: Ochn Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics Ysamur Flores-Pea 10Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odn Osun Diedre Badejo 11The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination 'Wande Abimbola 12Ochn in the Bronx George Brandon 13What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to sun Rachel Elizabeth Harding 14Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones David Ogungbile 15Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda Lindsay Hale 16An Oxum Shelters Children in So Paulo T'nia Cypriano 17Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women Mei-Mei Sanford 18Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective Robert Farris Thompson Contributors Index

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