Table of Contents:
  • Hidden power / ̣Òṣun the seventeenth Odú / Rowland Abiodun
  • A river of many Tunns: polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban tradition / Isabel Castellanos
  • Òrìṣà ̣Òṣun: Yoruba sacred kingship and civil religion in Òṣogbo, Nigeria / Jacob K. Olupona
  • Nesta cidade todo mundo é d'Oxum: in this city everyone is Oxum's / Ieda Machado Ribeiro dos Santos
  • Mãe Menininha / Manuel Vega
  • Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban mirror / Joseph M. Murphy
  • Osun and brass: an insight into Yoruba religious symbology / Cornelius O. Adepegba
  • Overflowing with beauty: the Ochún alter in Lucumí aesthetic tradition / Ysamur Flores-Pẽna
  • Authority and discourse in the Orin Ọdún ̣Òṣun / Diedre L. Badejo
  • The bag of wisdom: ̣Òṣun and the origins of the Ifá divination / ʼWande Abimbola
  • Ochun in the Bronx / George Brandon
  • "What part of the river you're in": African American women in devotion to Òsun / Rachel Elizabeth Harding
  • Ẹ̣érìndínlógún: the seeing eyes of sacred shells and stones / David O. Ogungbile
  • Mama Oxum: reflections of gender and sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda / Lindasy Hale
  • An Oxum shelters children in São Paulo / Tânia Cypriano
  • Living water: ̣Òṣun, Mami Wata, and Olókùn in the lives of four contemporary Nigerian Christian women / Mei-Mei Sandford
  • Orchestrating water and the wind: Oshun's art in Atlantic context / Robert Farris Thompson.