Orisha

//ˈɒɹɪʃɑː//

"Orisha" in a Sentence (2 examples)

I guess that is a good way to remember you. To rememeber you as a metaphor, but not to forget the text, to embrace all the humanity of your life... like an orisha — a flesh-and-blood hero. That sounds like a good African way to remember you.

Under the command of Olorun were also orishas, intermediaries in the Yorubic religion said to be connected between man and the supernatural.

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