Oshosi
Yoruba · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Oshosi hunts, and in the Americas he also judges. He belongs with Ogun and Eshu in the group a Yoruba household deals with when it needs something found, taken or decided — Ogun clears the path with iron, Oshosi finds the thing at the end of it. In Cuba he acquired a second office, patron of people wrongly accused, which is not hard to account for. The registry had the Cuban Ochosi and not him.
Domains
- hunting
- justice
Relations
- counterpart of: OchosiThe registry already carried the Cuban form and not the Yoruba one, which is the wrong way round: Ochosi is what happened to Oshosi after the middle passage, not the other way about.Reference treatment of Ochosi as the Cuban Santería form of the Yoruba Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì. (secondary)
Sources
- Oshosi is the Yoruba orisha of the hunt and of the forest, whose Cuban Santería form Ochosi is also an orisha of justice.: Reference treatments of Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì and of Ochosi. (secondary)