Oshun
sweet water, honey and gold
waterOshun is the river's fresh water, love, and the yellow gleam of gold and honey; to dream of her is to be courted by pleasure and beauty, and reminded that sweetness, freely given, is its own kind of power.
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She wears five brass bracelets and bathes in honey; cross her, and the sweetest water learns very quickly how to flood.
When the other powers had failed to bring the world back to order, it was Oshun — laughing, adorned, underestimated — who coaxed life from despair.
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