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 Ochún 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

6Mãe Menininha

Manuel Vega

7Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror

Joseph M. Murphy

8Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology

C.O. Adepegba

9Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics

Ysamur Flores-Peña

10Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Osun

Diedre Badejo

11The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination

'Wande Abimbola

12Ochún in the Bronx

George Brandon

13What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun

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 São Paulo

Tânia 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