Bondye, from the French Bon Dieu, is the single supreme and creator God of Vodou, also invoked as Gran Mèt, the Great Master. Understood as omnipotent but essentially remote and unknowable, Bondye is not the object of direct ritual service; having created the universe, he delegates its administration to the lwa, who mediate between humanity and the divine. Devotees frame their observances with the phrase 'si Bondye vle' (God willing), acknowledging that the lwa themselves act only by his permission. This distant high god coexists without contradiction alongside the Christian God with whom Bondye is identified.