The following is a list of Yoruba deities
Supreme being[]
- Olòrún - the supreme creator deity
Orishas[]
- Aganju - Orisha of volcanoes, the wilderness and rivers
- Aja - Orisha of the forest, the animals within it, and herbal healing
- Ayao - Orisha of air
- Babalu Aye - Orisha of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease (particularly smallpox, leprosy and AIDS) and healing
- Egungun-oya - Orisha of divination
- Erinle - Orisha of medicine, healing, and comfort, physician to the gods; in Santería he is also regarded as a patron of gay people
- Eshu - 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
- Obatala - creator of human bodies; Orisha of light, spiritual purity, and moral uprightness
- Ogoun - Orisha who presides over fire, iron, hunting, politics and war
- Olokun - patron Orisha of the descendants of Africans who were carried away during the Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage
- Oshun - Orisha who presides over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy
- Oshunmare - divine rainbow serpent associated with creation and procreation
- Oxossi - Orisha of the forest
- Oya - Orisha of the Niger River; associated with wind, lightning, fertility, fire, and magic
- Sopona - Orisha of smallpox
- Shango - Orisha of thunder and lightning
- Yemaja - a mother goddess; patron deity of women, especially pregnant women, and the Ogun river
Irunmole[]
- Orunmila - spirit of wisdom, divination, destiny, and foresight
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