Ọbatala
c. 800 CE – 2026 CEattested
Ile-Ife
- Yoruba
Orisha of white cloth and of moulding human bodies from clay. He is said to have shaped some of them badly while drunk on palm wine, and so became the patron of the people he made that way.
Known for
- shaping bodies from clay
- responsibility for his own mistakes
- white cloth and sobriety
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.