**Pierre Verger**
The archetype of Oxum is of a graceful and elegant woman with a passion for jewelry, perfume, and expensive clothes. Of women who are symbols of charm and beauty. Voluptuous and sensual. Oxum's children love unconditionally, giving their all in the relationship and ignoring defects of the partner. Gentle, extremely generous and sensitive, they can get emotional and hurt easily when they think they give more of themselves than they receive in return for others. However, once they feel despised or betrayed, they don't think twice about to break the bonds never to re-link them. Other of its characteristics is the yearning for physical contact, need to be in a loving relationship, difficulty in keeping secrets and the tendency to some illnesses of gynecological or renal order, which may be linked to stress.
**Monique Augras and Angela Maria**
Oxum is always described as sensual and narcissistic, in need of affection, manifesting very good relationship skills, intuitive and practical intelligence. Oxum's daughters highlight a tendency to cry easily, and great sensitivity. Other characteristics attributed to it were vanity, its ambition, and taste for expensive things and highlight positions (she owns the gold).
**Caminho do Oriente Institute**
Oxum's people are vain, elegant, sexy, love perfumes, expensive jewelry, beautiful clothes, everything that relates to beauty. They like to get the attention of the opposite sex. They are good housewives and companions, arouse jealousy in women and engage in intrigue.
**Louise Lauren**
They are generally quiet, peaceful and extremely generous people, who worry a lot for others, sensitized by the suffering of others. Their impartiality makes them good appeasers, just and inclined to perform diplomatic functions. Their willpower, tied to the fact that they are good administrators makes them easier to thrive. They are generally good at caring for children, good teachers, and cooks. Charming and charismatic, they have great emotional intelligence, conquering the affection of People around. They are not explicit opponents and avoid direct confrontation, they seek to act in sneaky ways, sometimes using gimmicks like manipulation, gossip, and sabotage. In between its shortcomings are also the tendency to envy, falsehood and even laziness to work such as household chores.
**Rossinei Felix**
They are very attractive and not rarely volatile. They are elegant and very subtle people. People refined, cheerful, often naughty or with an air of innocence. Lovers of luxury, parties, fashion, sparkles, and flowers. The delicacy in dealing with people, the thoughtful, smart way. Are really lovely and captivating people, full of anxiety and longing.
**Spiritual Roots**
Loving. Sweet. Detailers. Stable. Emotional. Vain. Intellectuals. Seductive. Burning in love. Manipulators. Voluptuous. Gossips. Fake. Great wizards.
**Ode Kileuy & Vera of Oxaguia**
The sons and daughters of Oxum are usually affectionate and calm. Diplomats are kind. Slow, they tend to be lazy and slow. They have a strong personality, always fighting for their interests, vain. At people of this orixa, when older, become grumpy and austere.
**Babalao Ronaldo Linares**
The children of Oxum are emotional, bashful, The Sons of Oxum are essentially honest and dedicated, they tend to keep something longer that has struck them. They are not vain. They prefer not to impose their opinions but hate to be contradicted. They cost a lot to get angry. Both male and female children of Oxum, are, like Iemanja, very close to home and family in general.
**Father John of Angola**
They are obstinate in the pursuit of their goals. They like parties, hype and other pleasures that life can offer them. They tend to have an intense sex life, hate scandals, are narcissistic. Grace, vanity, elegance, certain laziness, charm and beauty define Oxum's children, who love jewelry, perfumes, dressy clothes and all that is good and expensive.
**Norberto Peixoto**
They are delicate, graceful, usually beautiful. Your women can be sexy, voluptuous, emotional, fickle, unfaithful and futile. Ambitious, they appreciate luxury, wealth and comfort. They are serene, kind, emotional (cry easily) and highly intuitive. Observers of feelings, suspicious, indecisive and vindictive, they are born psychologists.
**Claude Lepine**
Oxum's type is less vigorous and less imposing than Yemanja. The daughters of Oxum are delicate, usually very beautiful. Have soft voice, sweetness, bright eyes, innocent little face, and enchants men.
**Father John of Angola**
While there is a strong tendency towards fat, the image of the laughing and humorous chubby goes with them.
**Barbara Triana**
Oxum's children have a round face, full hands and are or was, in some cases, chubby on a given moment of their life.