List of Yoruba deities

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