Photos from Osun Osogbo festivals.

 
Photos have emerged from the ongoing  activities to celebrate the grand finale of the Osun-Osogbo festival with devotees of Osun goddess, tourists, cultural enthusiasts and indigenes seen at the shrine of the god.

The highlight of the grand finale will see a votary maid (Arugba Osun), going to the river with a calabash filled with antiquities to worship the goddess of the river.

Osogbo town and the Palace of Ataoja of Osogbo had been bustling with activities in preparation for the grand finale of the Osun-Osogbo festivity with the state government had declared Aug. 20 as public holidays for the traditional festivity of the Isese celebration.

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