List of Yoruba deities


The following is a list of Yoruba orisha, or deities.

Supreme being

The Supreme God has three manifestations:
There are seven primary òrìṣàs, called orishas/orichas in Spanish and orixas in Portugués, and pronounced the same. Depending upon the country and what was passed down during the slave-trade era, the "Seven Powers" or "Siete Potencias" consist of the following òrìṣàs :
or:
As one can see, Babalú-Ayé is a very lesser deity in Afro-Hispanic worship.
Orisha worship, sometimes referred to as Santería, is still widely practiced in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Tobago/Trinidad and Brazil, most practitioners are Yoruba descendants. The Yorubla language is still spoken ceremoniously and is referred to as Lukumí. Due to 200 years of separation from the motherland, Lukumí is considered a Yoruba dialect. Similar orisha worship can also be found among the Afro-Franco populations of Haiti and the US state of Louisiana.