Worship Obatala as our Patron God

Obatala, ‘King of White Cloth’, also called Oriṣanla, is the king of the orisha in Yoruba religion. Olodumare named him sculptor of humankind: he came down from Heaven on a chain and moulded the first humans from clay, and shapes each child in the womb.

In some versions Eshu tempts him into drinking palm wine and his brother Oduduwa outdoes him. Ife tradition also remembers a mortal Obatala as the city’s founder-king.