Logun Edé

Logun Edé (in the scholarly Yoruba spelling Lógun Ẹ̀dẹ, 'The Warrior Captain of Edé') is the aristocratic and valiant orisha of hunting in the forests and of fishing in the freshwater rivers, in traditional Yoruba religion and in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé communities (especially in the Ketu and Ijexá nations). Born of the loving encounter between the queen of the freshwaters and of gold, Oxum (Òṣun), and the great royal hunter Oxóssi (Òṣóoòsì) — identified in several traditions of southwestern Nigeria with the river patron Erinlè — Logun Edé unites in his essence the predatory skills of the forest tracker and the aesthetic refinement of the goddesses of the waterfalls. Princely patron of the historic city of Edé and venerated with devotion in the Ilexá region, he holds in one hand the bow and iron arrow (ofá) inherited from his father, and in the other the fan with polished brass mirror (abebê) given to him by his mother. Revered as guardian of the young, of abundance in food and of ecological balance between the forest and river ecosystems, he is greeted in Candomblé with the vibrant liturgical cry 'Loci Loci Logun!'.

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The bow, the abebé, the mirror and the colors blue and yellow

Primary sources

• Pierre Fatumbi Verger, Notes sur le culte des orisha et vodun. translation: Dakar: Mémoires de l'IFAN, 1957 (monograph on Lógun Ẹ̀dẹ in Ilexá and Edé).
• Samuel Johnson, The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. translation: Lagos: CMS Bookshops / Routledge, 1921.
• Pierre Fatumbi Verger, Orixás: Deuses Iorubás na África e no Novo Mundo. translation: Salvador: Editora Corrupio, 1981 (chapter on Lógun Ẹ̀dẹ).

Studies

• Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos Santos (Mestre Didi), História de Um Terreiro Nagô: Tradição e Ancestralidade do Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. Editora Max Limonad, São Paulo, 1988.
• Vivaldo da Costa Lima, O Candomblé da Bahia: Ritos, Mitos e Concepções do Panteão Nagô. Editora Corrupio, Salvador, 2010.
• Babatunde Lawal, The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996.