Among the deities whose sculptures are represented are the following:

Obatala, the Lord of the White Cloth, symbolizing his purity of being, also represented by the pristine clarity of the stream at dawn. This purity of being also suggests his essence as the primal expression of the Ultimate. His being is the repository of the ultimate guiding force of the existence of the human person’s earthly journey. He is the creative force that molds the physical frame of the human being as a vehicle for his or her spirit as that is implanted by the Ultimate.He is also the primal ground from which all the deities have emerged through a cataclysmic process described as being smashed to pieces by a boulder rolled onto him by his slave The remaining pieces were reintegrated in a calabash by the occult power of Orunmila, the Lord of wisdom, but other fragments have escaped and become the other Orisha or deities. This could be interpreted as symbolizing the emergence of the constituent spiritual personalities that represent the creative power of Spirit in the cosmos through a creative process similar to the depiction of rupture described in the Lurianic Kabbalah in which the cosmos came into being through divine retraction and the shattering of the phenomenal universe into its present shape. These mythic images, along with associated astronomical ideas on the universe as having been created through a primal explosion or Big Bang, suggest an image of cosmic creation as an agonistic process, as in childbirth (Idowu,1962, p.71-75,Beier,1975,p.34-35,Osundare,Jeyifo,2001p.xvii-xviii;Tidjani-Serpos,Armstrong,1993,p.266-271,Soyinka,1979,p.69,82-83).