Olódùmarè is the creator and the source, and is not approached through a cult image: the tradition addresses him through what stands between. Ọ̀rúnmìlà (also called Òrúnmìlà, and in the Diaspora Orula) is the orìṣà of wisdom and of destiny, the witness to what each person chose before birth, and the owner of Ifá; the ikin are his presence and the corpus is his speech. The other orìṣà — Ọbàtálá, Ṣàngó, Ọ̀ṣun, Ògún, Ọ̀yá, Yemọja, Ọ̀sanyìn and the rest — are the powers that carry particular domains of existence, and Ifá is the means by which a person learns which of them is concerned in a matter and what is owed. So Ifá is not a rival of the orìṣà cults but the consultative spine that runs through them: an odù routinely prescribes that a person receive or feed a named orìṣà, and a priest of an orìṣà routinely sends a question to Ifá.