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  2. Akan religion - Wikipedia

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    Followers of Akan spirituality believe in a supreme god who created the universe. He is distant and does not interact with humans. [citation needed]The creator god takes on different names depending upon the region of worship, including Nyame, Nyankopon, Brekyirihunuade ("Almighty"), Odomankoma ("infinite inventor"), [3] Ɔbɔadeɛ ("creator") and Anansi Kokuroko ("the great designer" or "the ...

  3. Nyankapon-Nyame-Odomankoma - Wikipedia

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    Nyankapon might also be the Fante patron God Bobowissi, as well as the God stated as the supreme God in other traditional religions of peoples in Akan dominated countries such as Ivory Coat and Ghana specifically. However, they could either be their own Supreme God or Onyame, another aspect of the Akom Trinity and the parent to Onyankapon. [9] [8]

  4. Asase Ya/Afua - Wikipedia

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    Hence the Akan's spiritual system was dominant on the plantation. According to Jamaican historian and slave owner Edward Long, creole descendants of the Akan coupled with other newly arrived Coromantee joined in observation and worship of the Akan goddess Asase (the English people recorded erroneously as 'Assarci'). They showed their worship by ...

  5. Akan people - Wikipedia

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    The Akan culture reached South America, the Caribbean, and North America. [27] Some of their most important mythological stories are called anansesem, literally meaning "the spider story", but in a figurative sense also meaning "traveler's tales". These "spider stories" are sometimes also referred to as nyankomsem: "words of a sky

  6. Tano (Ta Kora) - Wikipedia

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    Tano (Tanoɛ), whose true name is Ta Kora (abbreviated from Tano Kora/Akora, not to be confused with Tano Akora) and is known as Tando to the Fante is the Abosom of war and strife in Akan mythology and Abosom of Thunder and Lightning in the Asante mythology of Ghana as well as the Agni mythology of the Ivory Coast. [1]

  7. Owuo - Wikipedia

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    In Akan depictions, Owuo is a truly sadistic and cannibalistic deity who kills without a second thought or care. His first act after being created was to kill his creator [2] and in other tellings of the story he even tried to kill all 3 supreme beings. [7]

  8. Kra (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Akan spirituality, the kra is the soul of a person. It is of divine origin; that is to say, one gets their "Kra" from God (Nyame/Niamien). An Akan conforms to the abusua/(Mogya (blood)) of his mother, and receives the Ntoro from his father. These maternal and paternal bonds follow the Akan wherever he/she travels.

  9. List of earth deities - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the Earth is personified as Gaia, corresponding to Roman Terra, Indic Prithvi, etc. traced to an "Earth Mother" complementary to the "Sky Father" in Proto-Indo-European religion. Egyptian mythology have the sky goddesses, Nut and Hathor, with the earth gods, Osiris and Geb. Ki and Ninhursag are Mesopotamian earth goddesses.