The indigenous Yoruba has a belief in the existence of a self-existent being who is believed to be responsible for the creation and maintenance of heaven and earth, of men and women, and who also brought into being divinities and spirits who are believed to be his functionaries in the theocratic world as well as intermediaries between mankind and the self-existent being
Omosade Awolalu, Yoruba Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites (White Plains, NY: Longman Group, 1979), p. 3