Oshun Festival in Oshogbo, Nigeria | Ochún | Oxúm | Ozun | August 1973

Footage of the finale of the Oshun Festival in the old Western State of Nigeria. Oshun is the Yoruba goddess of the river and fresh water, beauty & love, sexuality & fertility. She is one of the most worshipped of the Orishas among Yoruba communities in West Africa, Brazil, Cuba and Trinidad where the Yoruban worship system is expressed in the religions of Candomblé (Brazil), Santeria (Cuba & Trinidad)
Reuters text from 1973:
In Nigeria's Western State at the town of Oshogbo, local inhabitants and tourists have been spending the past week in ceremonies dedicated to the deification of the goddess Oshun.
The Oshun Festival is celebrated for eight days in August, in recognition of the protection given to the citizens of Oshogbo by the goddess Oshun. The activities of the festival include the offering of sacrifices at the Oshun Shrine, drumming, dancing, singing, feasting and general merry-making.
On the final day of the festivities the celebrations move to Oshun's shrine on the banks of the Oshun river. There the Arugba, usually a young virgin, carries to the shrine a calabash, (a large container) within which are antiquities and relies associated with the Goddess.
Oshun was one of the wives of Sango a powerful ruler of the region who was later deified into a god of thunder. It was said that Oshun's great love for children led people to believe that she possessed mystical powers to make barren women fertile and to protect the children of Oshogbo.
Source of footage: Reuters News Archive.

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