ERINLE (goddess of water)

Erinle, Orisha of the natural forces ERINLE means ELEPHANT and the god of the earth, He is masculine and powerful, Huge and imposing, solid and unyielding. As the goddess of the waters, he is swift-flowing and life giving, a feminine deity, switching between the two states as needed to serve his people. He is one of the most changeable and fiercely celebrated of the yoruba deities, popular across Yorubaland and among Yorubas.

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In the yoruba tradition, Erinle was a great hunter who became an orisha .He is usually described as a hunter but sometimes as a herbalist or a farmer. He is said to have conducted the first olobu of ilobu to the site of the town, and have protected the people of the town from fulani invasions. It was said in the past history that it sank one day into the earth near ilobu and became a river. He is known all over yorubaland. Erinle means land Elephant. He is known to be a male orisha in yoruba land. Erinle's uniqueness is all about his inhabitation of two words i.e water and earth. Erinle heals with water (from ocean) and leaves and herbs from the forest, he hunts on land for animals and for fishes in water.

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The orisha is very popular and well known all over yoruba land and of course among the yoruba americans, cubans, Trinidadian, Latinos and many more outside the yoruba nation in Nigeria.

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