List of Yoruba deities

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
Yoruba
Category:African traditional religions