Oxum
Orisha of fresh waters, love, gold, and fertility. Lady of rivers and waterfalls, of beauty and diplomacy. Protective mother of pregnancies. Greeting: "Ora yê yê ô!".
Who She Is
Oxum (Ọ̀ṣun) is the orisha of the fresh waters — of rivers, springs, and waterfalls — and, with them, of love, fertility, beauty, and gold. She is the mother who protects pregnancy and small children, the lady of the womb and of sweetness, but also a powerful diplomat, able to resolve through gentleness what force cannot.
Her water is the one that quenches thirst and makes life sprout; her metal is gold; her flavor is honey. She is vain, generous, and firm: Oxum’s mildness is not weakness, and her wrath, when it comes, is as deep as her waters.
Domains
- Fresh waters — rivers, springs, waterfalls; the water that sustains life.
- Love and fertility — affection, gestation, the continuation of life.
- Wealth and beauty — gold, abundance, charm, diplomacy.
In-Game Perspective
Oxum is the principle of the waters that generate and embrace — a vital counterpoint to the still waters of Nanã and the sea of Iemanjá. In the Wiki’s line of syncretism, she echoes the great goddesses of love and fertility — Inanna, Ishtar, Aphrodite —, all faces of a single principle under the Theosophical reading.