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Offering to Oshun kicks off the annual Odunde Festival

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The Odunde festival celebrates 50 years in Philadelphia. Participants make traditional offerings that include fruit and flowers to Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of the river. The ritual honors the festival’s West African roots and is open to all. The process to the river serves as the cultural and spiritual kickoff to the day’s events.

Oshun Muldrow makes an offering of cake to the goddess Oshun.
Oshun Muldrow makes an offering of cake to the goddess Oshun.Read moreDavid Maialetti / Staff Photographer
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