The name of the Ilé (house) and the symbols on its blazon, say much about the asé (axé: the vital and sacred energy) which presides  the “terreiro” (temple, house of the axé).

Ilé Alaketu Odé Tolá: it means House of the Ketu Tribe of the orixá Oxossi (the Odé deity or, as said above, the hunter).

Asé Odé Erinlé: this is the patron deity of the house, to which, therefore, the temple is dedicated.

Odé Erinlé is a Yoruba deity of which little is known to the public, since it is surrounded by secret.

Odé Erinlé is the hunter who goes hunting on the top of the mountains.

He is the brave and unbeatable hunter who is able to capture the most difficult of all beasts: the elephant.

The elephant on the blazon is the symbol of Odé Erinlé.

The bow and the arrow are the symbols of orixá Oxossi, the hunter.

The lance and the hook which are on the sides of the blazon represent respectively the tools used to hunt big animals and to fish.

The two fishes and the blue circle represent the River Erinlé, in Nigeria: the element of nature into which, in a certain moment of his life, Odé Erinlé  was transformed.