Osun is the orisha of fresh water, wealth, beauty, fertility and — the point usually lost in English descriptions — of decisive power. Her odu, in which the sixteen orisha sent to organise the world excluded her from their deliberations and found that nothing whatever they attempted would work until they returned and apologised, is quoted directly in Yoruba arguments about the exclusion of women, and it is quoted by women. She owns the Osun river at Osogbo, and the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2005 — its survival owing a great deal to Susanne Wenger, an Austrian artist who settled in Osogbo in the 1950s, was initiated as a priestess, took the name Adunni Olorisha, and spent decades rebuilding the shrines and fighting off developers and loggers until her death in 2009.