After the introduction, the interviewer, Mr Ekhator-Obogie Godfrey asked Mr Oronsaye Patrick the following questions: What is Osogan in Benin? What material is it made with and what is it used for? Osogan is like the staff of the office of an accomplished Osun priest. Osun is the Benin deity or god of medicine, the god of your personal spiritual growth. The deity that is inherent in herbs, in the bark of trees. The deity that takes care of your spiritual well-being. When your Osun has attained a level, you start dreaming of snakes, and then later on it starts appearing in your Osun pot. That is a pot dedicated to spiritual bathing. The Osogan is made of iron, and the icons and images on them are birds, birds of the night, ahianmw_ẹ _ n’ọkhua, to signifying the esoteric and spiritual side of our cosmology, especially the forces that operate at night. It is used by the Osun ardent, or the priest when he is performing his duties in the communities. When he sits, he plants it by his side, _O ba _(to stick something upright on the ground) Osogan. Then when they are performing their annual ritual dance, he dances with the Osogan and plants it at the end of each dance. There is a popular story of Ẹbomisi of Ugo and the Obo of Ayen. The Benin man says ‘Ọ mwe ọna re mwe ọna, re ọ ma gi ẹ Ẹbomisi gb ẹ Ọbo n’Ayen’(Ẹbomisi could not kill Ọbo n’Ayen because there is no one that has everything in life). Ẹbomisi attends a frequency that when he is performing his annual ritual ceremony, he will invite all the Osun priests in the entire neighbourhood. It was said that he uses a minimum of fourteen Osun priests to perform his annual rituals. Because he paved his entire courtyard with stones, the Osogan cannot stand.