Oshunmare

"Oshumare" redirects here. For album by Billy Hart, see Oshumare (album).

Oshunmare (known as Ochumaré or Oxumaré in Latin America) is an Orisha.[1][2] Osumare is the god of the rainbow, and Osumare also means rainbow in the Yoruba Language

See also

References

  1. Allen F. Roberts (April 1992). "Chance Encounters, Ironic Collage". African Arts. 25 (2): 54–63, 97–98. doi:10.2307/3337060. JSTOR 3337060.
  2. Paul Carter Harrison, Gus Edwards (2002). Black theatre: ritual performance in the African diaspora. Temple University Press. p. 418. ISBN 978-1566399449. Retrieved 2010-04-27.


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