Offering to Oxum: see how to please her and tips to make your own!

Delicious and beautiful dishes and sympathies can be offered to Oxum in order to attract prosperity, money, a new job or love in your life. Items can range from small fruits to flowers and coins. Some of the offerings listed in this article are free of animal ingredients.

Oxum is the orisha that reigns over sweet waters and waterfalls, being the goddess of love, fertility, prosperity, material and spiritual wealth and beauty. In addition, she owns gold and precious stones, being worshiped in Umbanda and also in Candomblé.

Offerings made with fruits and flowers are usually delivered near springs and waterfalls, without polluting the forest and waters. Its candles are blue, in Umbanda, and yellow, in Candomblé. Read this article to learn more about Oxum and learn how to make some offerings to this Orisha.

In addition to representing beauty, it also symbolizes joviality and fullness in love, so it is common to see people making requests to the loving area. Continue reading to find out the story of Oxum, her characteristics, what her children are like, how to please her and more.

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In one of the stories, Oxum is the daughter of Oxalá and considered the second wife of Xangô, being very curious, loved and the most beautiful of the daughters. Her father consulted Orunmilá, the lord of divination for the progression of destiny, Oxum accompanied him until he wanted to learn how to read cowries.

However, Orunmila, or ifá, asked Oxum to ask the exu the doubts he had, for he had the gift of seeing fate through this oracle. When asking permission from Oxalá, his father, to learn to read the future, he replied that only Ifá has the gift of interpreting the cowries.

Disappointed by his father’s answer, he went to Exu to ask him to teach this oracle, as he was aware of the secret of Orunmila. However, she was disappointed again, as Exu also refused the request. Oxum had to think of something else she could do to get what she wanted.

He decided to go to the forest to ask the Yami Oroxongá witch to teach him how to read shells, but had no idea that these wizards wanted to take Exu through a deception. They took the opportunity to influence Oxum to do what they planned.

This iaba learned a magic from the Yami and asked to provide them with an offering whenever the spell was made. When she reached Exu, she asked her to guess what she had in her hands. As he approached, Oxum blew a bright dust on his face, making him blind.

Exu’s false preoccupation with the buzios made him ask the Orisha for help, answering his questions to compose the game. Ao retornar para o reino, Oxum contou tudo o que fez e que foi por amor. Ifá she was amazed and presented her with a game of shells.

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Oxum is represented by a black, young, beautiful woman with medium-length, dark curly hair. In some images, she is portrayed with the huge pregnant belly and, in other illustrations, she is characterized with a adê (crown) covering her face and hairless.

In the illustrations, he is usually wearing a strapless gold dress that may or may not have a large yellow loop in the pectoral region and gold color accessories in his arms. She is always holding a gold mirror, which serves to give back everything she gets in the same proportion, and has a pearl necklace around the neck.

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Oxum is Xangô’s second wife. Her relationship with her with Obá, one of the three wives, was rivalry, making the warrior orixá and passionate cut her own ear and delivering inside Amala as devotion to her husband in an attempt to receive her attention and affection. In the end, everything went wrong, creating great quarrel between the two, awakening the wrath of her husband and the two being expelled from her kingdom.

In addition to being the daughter of Oxalá, in many stories, she is the daughter of Iemanjá. However, in other legends, it is characterized as sister of this iabá. According to one of these legends, Oxum had lost his kingdom, his wealth and beauty, crying on the edge of a river, which reached the bottom of the sea.

Realizing that the tears were from the sweet Oxum, Iemanjá helped her to get back on her feet. She cut part of her huge hair so that Iaba wore as a wig until her grew up again gave her the corals of the sea and made her owner of all the gold on earth. Since then, one can take care of the other’s children in addition to her own.

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In Brazil, whether in Afro-Brazilian religions or in Catholicism, Oxum is syncretized with several Nossa Senhoras. For example, in Bahia, it is called Nossa Senhora das Candeias or Our Lady of Prazeres, while in the rest of the Northeast it is regarded as Our Lady of Carmo.

In the northern region of the country, this Orixá is syncretized as Our Lady of Nazareth, while in the southern region, is regarded as Our Lady of Conception. In the Midwest and Southeast regions, it is called just as Nossa Senhora or Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida. Most people have probably heard of one of these listed in their lifetime.

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Oxum’s children care about the opinion of others, like to please people and are diplomats, solving disagreements and problems calmly and seriously. They are also honest people, very affectionate, dedicated, vain, sweet, emotional and focused.

When the children of this Orisha decide they want to achieve a goal, they create plans and paths to follow until they achieve it. In addition to maternal, they are very sensitive and emotional, avoid unnecessary fights, take good care of the loved one and when they are hurt, there is hardly forgiveness.

Regarding the physical characteristics, they tend to get fat more easily, they are vain, seductive and give a lot of value to material pleasures and food. Their sex life is active and intense, they are always dating and struggle to conquer the person they truly fall in love with.

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Prayers are one of the most important parts of worshiping an Orixá, which can be to call the entity in the terreiro, say hello, thank you, communicate with the Orixás, attract higher energies or ask for protection, love and prosperity. The following prayer is to ask Oxum for protection and prosperity.

“Save Oxum, golden lady of the golden skin, blessed are your waters that wash my being and get rid of evil. Oxum, Divine Queen, Beautiful Orixá, come to me, walking on the full moon, bringing in her hands the lilies of love of peace. It makes me sweet, smooth and seductive as you are.

Oh! Mom Oxum, protect me, make love be constant in my life, and that I can love all the creation of Olorum. Protect me from all mandingas and witchcraft. Give me the nectar of your sweetness and that I get everything I want: the serenity to act consciously and balanced.

May I be like their sweet waters that follow exposure in the course of the rivers, intersecting stones and rushing the waterfalls, without stopping or having a way back, just following my way. Purify my soul and body with your breathtaking tears. Inunda-me com sua beleza, sua bondade e seu amor, enchendo minha vida de prosperidade. Save Oxum! ”

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The main Oxum leaves and herbs that are used in their rituals, parties and requests to bring their energy are rosemary, lavender, Alamanda, acacia yellow, waterpiece, chamomile, calêndula, cambará, colony, the herb-of-Santa-Maria, the herb-of-santa-luzia and the lemongrass.

In addition to these plants, there is also Fava-Pichuri, Flamboiant, Orange Flower, Yellow Ipê, Jambuaçu, Macela, Picão, Yellow Rose, Oxum Oriri and Broom. Each sheet and each herb has its respective properties that are used for certain goals such as prosperity, love, discharge, among others.

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To please Oxum, food such as fruits and sweets are usually offered, whether or not to put some object together. This type of offering is made to ask for something in life like prosperity, money, love, protection, health, blessings or as thanks for something desired to have done.

The fruits used to please Oxum are: avocado, banana, soursop, lime orange, green apple, melon, pear, peach and grape. The flowers, the ones that please this orisha and are used as offerings are: sunflower, yellow rose and lilies. Other foods to please it are: quindim, honey, coconut water, sugar and lavender.

All offerings should be accompanied with white, yellow and blue candles, which are their respective colors. Another way to please this orisha is to use roses essence, as well as champagne or cherry liquor. These items are of great appreciation for Oxum and all offerings should be placed near a waterfall or river.

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Some tips for the offering is to use golden coins in the offerings that need this object, besides putting the food and other ingredients in dishes or containers also golden, if necessary, since Oxum is the lady of the gold and all her garments and adornments They are also the color of this precious metal.

Some offerings should be delivered to the edge of a river or waterfall, so that there is the fluidity of prosperity energies in one’s life. Ideally, the offering be delivered in nature, where it is the address of the orishas. If you do not have easy access to these places, do not hesitate to seek guidance from a pai or madre de santo.

Be careful when placing the offering in the woods near a waterfall, make sure the candles are well positioned and firm so that there is no accident and causes a fire. Some people indicate erasing the candles after the request or thanksgiving, as nature is a sacred good.

This offering is made to receive Oxum’s energies, both for fertility and for love or prosperity. To find out how to make it, the ingredients and the ideal time to prepare it, read the topics below.

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This offering can be done when the person wants to ask or thank Oxum something. After 12 or 24 hours have passed since the food was ready, this dish must be delivered to a forest, positioned near a waterfall, river or stream. The right day to prepare this food must be verified with the father or mother of the saint of the yard who is.