Creation Story

In the beginning as the Akamara (God, The universal spirit of the Universe) created itself, dews/gases commenced to spread throughout the universe. Origun, an Irunmole, was ordered to solidify the dews/gases. As the dews cooled, the stars came into being but there was no order so the stars began to collide with one another.

Baba-Asemu-Egun-Sunwa another Irunmole, was ordered to bring order to the stars. This Irunmole made it so that the stars had the same pattern and rotation.

Olu-Iwaye, another Irunmole, was ordered to extract the planets from the stars. In our solar system there were first 7 planets created. The other two were brought later. Our moon was also created from the planets and stars. As our planet was created (Earth), Olodumare gave our planet to an Irunmole named Aye. This was a female entity and although an Irunmole, she is not considered part of the 401 Irunmole. Hence, our planet was given the name Ile Aye (Home of Aye). During this time only the other Irunmole could visit this planet and the planet had no permanent residents. Aye became lonely and wanted others to live there premanently with her.

Hence, Olodumare first sent Ogun to the planet earth to make it habitable for Human beings to live. Ogun came with his entourage which included Ija, Osoosi, and some others but Ogun was unsuccessful and had to return back home. He did manage however to chart the way to the planet earth.

Obatala was then sent next. Obatala followed the path Ogun had charted to the planet and brought with him Alaanu, Oloore, Sungbemi, Magbemiti, to name a few of his companions, but was also unsuccessful so he returned back home.

The third Orisa sent was Orunmila. Before leaving on the journey Orunmila met with "Agba Dudu Ori Imo" (The Babalawos in Heaven) and found out exactly what he would need to make the earth habitable. Orunmila was succesful in making the earth habitable. He planted many herbs first and then the animlas came next. After the earth was made habitable, the first set of beings were sent to the planet which were called Eniyan. These beings at first lived in harmony with everything on earth but with time gained super natural powers and began destroying what was created on this planet and on others.

Olodumare then ordered the waters to rise up on the planet and killed most of the Eniyan. Some of the Eniyan however survived and would later be the ones who would give the witches their power.

In this stage, the world was filled with water. Olodumare then sent Obatala a second time in order to re-habitate the planet. Olodumare favored Obatala but once again Obatala was unable to complete the task. Obatala failed and had to return home.

After Obatala, Olodumare then sent "Olofin Otete" another name for Oduduwa. Before embarking on the journey to earth, Oduduwa consulted Ifa with Orunmila. Orunmila told him what he would exactly need to re-habitate the earth and he was successful. The world began to solidify and the point at which the waters began to recede was named Ile Ife. The plants, animals, insects, fish, etc were recreated and it is during this stage that human beings were first created. It's also important to know that all human beings, regardless of color, lived together in harmony at this time. The first race created was the Black Race, then the Asian (Mongoloid)Yellow Race, then the Brown Race, and then the Whites.

It is important to note that we are still in this stage of existence. Ifa says that during this stage, human beings will try to manipulate nature instead of working in harmony with it and that we would destroy the environment.

In this stage human beings will become more intelligent and wise and will learn how to live in harmony with nature and each other. There will be a major movement to go back to Traditionalism and living in harmony with Olodumare.

Note: The above creation story is by far not complete but provides a basic understanding of the creation of the universe, our solar system, our planet, and ourselves.