List of Yoruba deities
The following is a list of Yoruba orisha (òrìṣà), or deities. Some in Oyo say Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì is female, Ogun's wife. Supreme being. The Supreme God has three manifestations: Difference between Yoruba òrìṣà worship and what is practiced among Afro-Hispanics. These are the major orisha worshipped in Santería / Regla de Ocha / Lucumí religion: or: As one can see, Babalú-Ayé (whom "Ricky Ricardo" sings to in his famous song) is a very lesser deity in Afro-Hispanic worship. Cuban African worship, sometimes referred to as Santería, is still widely practiced in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the  Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Tobago/Trinidad and Brazil, a number of practitioners are Yoruba descendants to certain degrees. Remnants of the Yoruba language is still used ceremoniously as a ritual language, and is referred to as Lukumí. Due to 200 years of separation from the motherland, Lukumí became a lexicon of words and is not a spoken language. Similar worship of African deities can also be found among the Afro-Franco populations of Haiti and the US state of Louisiana.