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No. 38 Summer 2025 25.00

I am a beauty larger than life

Goddess Osun

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No. 38 •

Leading the way through See All This #38 are six divine figures – goddesses from various eras and cultures. Oyeronke Olademo, Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria, observes the enduring legacy of the Yoruba deity Osun: goddess of wealth, beauty, love, healing and fertility.

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‘Her eyes sparkle in the forest,
like the sun on the river.
She is the wisdom of the forest
she is the wisdom of the river.
Where the doctor failed
she cures with cool water.
She cures the child
and does not charge the father.
She feeds the barren woman with honey
and her dry body swells up
like a juicy palm fruit.
Oh, how sweet
is the touch of child’s hand!’

— From: Yoruba Poetry, Cambridge University Press,
1970, compiled and edited by Ulli Beier

Tuli Mekondjo, Someone Says Die, Another Says Stay, 2019, mixed media op doek, 60 × 46 cm | courtesy of Guns & Rain, Hales, London and New York, and the artist
Fig 1. Tuli Mekondjo, Someone Says Die, Another Says Stay, 2019, mixed media op doek, 60 × 46 cm | courtesy of Guns & Rain, Hales, London and New York, and the artist

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