This interview provides answers to the following question: What is Osogan in Benin? What material is it made with and what is it used for? Osogan is the staff of the office of an accomplished Osun priest, the deity or god of medicine that is responsible for the spiritual growth of physicians, doctors and sometimes diviners. Here the interviewee stated that the Osogan is made from iron, and the icons and images on them are birds (birds of the night or ahianmwẹ n’ọkhua) which are symbols that signify the esoteric and spiritual sides of Benin cosmology.