Olokun

Olokun is the orisha of the ocean depths in Yoruba religion, parent of Aje, the orisha of wealth. Worship of Olokun is strongest in the Yoruba and Edo towns of southwestern Nigeria; near the coast the god is male, in the hinterland female. One Ife account makes Olokun the wife of Oduduwa who became the sea after leaving him.

At Lagos the Oniru chief held an annual festival to Olokun to avert flooding, and in Ife the chief priest is the Oba Ijio.