Maferefún Osain!
Osain
Herbs · The wild · Nature’s medicine
Names across the traditions
- Yoruba (Nigeria)
- Ọ̀sanyìn
- Lucumí (Cuba)
- Osain
- Candomblé (Brazil)
- Ossaim
The owner of herbs and of the wild: every leaf that heals or consecrates passes through him.
Osain teaches that the power is not in the picked leaf, but in knowing which leaf, when, and with which word — knowledge that is not bought, but learned.