Tradition summary
Oshun is the river's fresh water, love, and the yellow gleam of gold and honey.
Mythic Dream reflection
to dream of her is to be courted by pleasure and beauty, and reminded that sweetness, freely given, is its own kind of power.
Literary reflections
These fragments are original Mythic Dream writing, offered as prompts rather than historical source material.
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.
Sources & editorial status
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