All ancient spiritualities have no founder. They came naturally to the people. This is true also for the traditional spiritual practice of the Yoruba. Obatala is regarded as the 'Eni otun Eledua'. The right hand man of God or Olodumare.

For centuries, renegade Abrahamic religionists have consistently dismissed all ancient traditional spiritual practices as paganistic with seemingly derogatory titles like animism, idolatory, polytheism, pantheism, deism and many other appellations. They trash these natural practices, desecrate them, insult them while urging people to join their camp of baseless and divisive innovations, propped up by terrorism, threats of hell for unbelievers and promise of paradise for the sheep. The major undoing they have is their bounded beliefs and know it all attitude. You have to abide strictly to some mundane, sometimes idiotic rules to qualify for paradise, failing which the God who is actually a demonic deity will burn you in hell forever. Naturally, there will be disagreements on the body of crucial rules that qualifies people for paradise, since the rules are not based on any kind of common sense but on voices their leaders hear in their heads. So, the two Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam were designed by demons, so that the adherents will remain in a permanent state of confusion of doctrines often leading to war, strife, enmity and pointless killings. This is the trap, the plan. Both Christianity and Islam claim to be monotheistic religions. Islamic monotheism is a loner monotheism with a sole God, working alone, no friends, associates, family, wife, children, subordinates and etc. No need for language. A one God and Mohammed is his prophet, the God incarnate, through whom alone God speaks and without whom God can not pass any message across to humanity, whose dictates must be obeyed by all as he is God incarnate otherwise known as last prophet. He banned divination as would be expected. The Christian monotheism is a trinitarian monotheism, consisting of the God, his son and the Holy Spirit wedged together as one but also with the son sitting at the right side of the father or himself after sending the holy spirit to the world. Only the trinity should be worshipped, no bowing down to idols and you must accept the son as your Lord and saviour to be saved. If you wrong someone, the son will forgive you that wrong, all your sins are wiped off immediately you plead the blood of Jesus. If you don't believe and accept all these, you will be burnt in hell forever by the God. Christianity just like Islam, frowns at divination. It is just what one would expect from demons trying to subvert humanity under them. It must be noted that divination was widely accepted in Judaism, the parent religion of both Christianity and Islam. It was used to divide Canaan land, to fish out Achan after he committed an abomination and to pick the replacement for Judas among the disciples of Jesus Christ but it is now banned in Christianity and Islam in a clear bid to impede access to God by humans. A bid sponsored by demons.

In Yoruba monotheism just like in the Yoruba culture, bowing down, gesticulating and worshipping others is not only important, it is obligatory. Males lie down on the ground to greet while females bend their knees fully. Greeting and respect for others is a very crucial component of the Yoruba culture, for a harmonious relationship with others. Christians and Muslims want to force us to look at our culture from their perspective, so they say our Orisas, Eeguns and etc are gods because we bow down and worship them, offering sacrifice, but what then is Olodumare who is never offered sacrifice despite being the owner of the Ashe or the creative force being used by all? Whose name ends all prayers? We must not allow people who are challenged with getting their acts together, who fight and kill themselves distort our reality. There is only one God, not several, in the Yoruba culture, and that God is gentleman God, not a jealous God, which makes the spiritual practice monotheistic, it does not mean polytheism is wrong either, but the Yoruba culture is monotheistic in the strictest sense of it. Olodumare, the Olu of Ogotun reigns in his realm at the headship of 400 irunmales, totalling 401 irunmales. Olodumare is the owner of all Ashe. Most West African cultures are similarly modelled.

The Yoruba invoke, manipulate, worship and try to influence all the deities including orisas and Eeguns for either good or evil using the Ashe of Olodumare. Infact, the normal condition was that deities would outnumber humans in any Yoruba city as all sorts of personal, family, lineage, national deities are proliferated by people but no one attempts to influence Olodumare.

An Ifa priest prays to Olodumare for clarity before making a divination with the understanding that Olodumare supports truth and honesty. Also, Olodumare wants everybody to be a diviner, at least to a reasonable extent. If you are not a diviner, you are like an internet modem without an internet subscription. The highest calling is to be a knowledgeable diviner with a vast knowledge of Ifa, with the assurrance that nothing is impossible for Olodumare. Ifa can solve any problem a human being may encounter. A group of Babalawos or Ifa diviners who are equivalents of Professors can come together to create a charm to do anything the mind can conceive, to solve any problem then package it to prescribe and sell to people to solve those problems. They will not call it miracle, to them it is the condensation of the power of Olodumare by the Awo through imule or covenant. In the modern world, there should be millions of Babalawos working together to solve various problems, sharing knowledge and etc. This is what Christianity and Islam are trying to stop from becoming a reality with their strange monotheism.

The Yoruba monotheism in short is an ancient form of monotheism that encourages deifying everything without exception and without restrictions. It encourages everybody to become diviners. What is a miracle to Muslims and Christians, the Awos achieve by harnessing the power of Olodumare. The Awo is against prideful egotistic claims as well as against mere humans claiming a special pedestal for themselves as God or last prophet. An Awo that does that because they have some esoteric knowledge becomes a traitor, an odale, and will be expelled from his unit. Despite understanding the mysteries, Awos do not talk down on people or reel prophecies off their heads like modern Pastors.

May Olodumare assist us to return to the true path. Ase.