- Olodumare (creator god)
- Olorun (supreme deity of heaven)
- Olofi (conduit god between heaven and earth)
- Orunmila (deity of divination, knowledge, and wisdom; known to offer a hand in marriage to women and homosexuals)
- Ochumare (rainbow deity, and guardian of children; represented by the umbilical cord)
- Eshu (god of fertility, divine messenger for humans, and undergod of duality)
- Aganju (god of mountains, volcanoes, and the desert)
- Iemanja (goddess of the ocean, and loving mother of all humans; daughter of Obatala; wife of Aganju)
- Shango (warrior god of masculine power, male sexuality, fire, and thunder)
- Oya (powerful warrior goddess of underworld gates, winds, hurricanes, unpredictable change; Shango's favourite lover)
- Ogoun (warrior god of war, politics, technology, iron, labour, and sacrifice)
- Oshun (god of love, fertility, feminine beauty, art, and rivers; Shango's lover; loved by Ogoun)
- Ochosi (hunter god of searching who also advocates for the accused and those who seek justice)
- Ozain (god of the forest, and guardian of certain essential herbs)
- Erinle (goddess of healing, comfort, medicine, and personal family physician for deities and supernatural agents)
- Oku (god of harvesting and agriculture)
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- Babalu Aye (spirit of healing and the earth, and of diseases and illnesses)
- Ibeji (sacred twin spirits who represent vitality and youth)
- Obatala (father of humankind, provider of light, morality, and purity)
- Obba (divinity of marriage; daughter of Iemanja; jealous wife of Shango)
- Ori (spiritual ruler of the head)
- Iwa (righteousness and character of behaviour as supported by the creator, Olodumare)
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- Ifá is purely the truth (and provides a system of guidance that provides a genuine course of action and combines the way of living with the psychological)
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- Ìṣẹẹ̀ṣe (see "Ifa speaks..." under Links & Resources)
- Itefa, Itelodu, and Elegan represent the varying degrees of performing one's initiation or rite of passage to determine their purpose or destiny (this ritual is typically performed by a priest or diviner or Orunmila)
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