The provided sources do not record a discrete birth or cosmogonic narrative for Asase Yaa. Rather than a narrated origin, her presence is attested as a central, personified earth-mother in Akan religious thought: the embodiment of the earth itself and a principal feminine figure responsible for fertility and the condition of the soil. In lexical and ethnographic treatments she appears as an enduring cosmological presence—the earth that sustains life and is regarded culturally as the Mother of the Dead—rather than as a deity introduced by a specific mythic birth story.
The supplied sources do not describe a standardized physical appearance or iconography for Asase Yaa. Reference works and the summary material index her by name variants and roles but do not provide ritual or artistic depictions. From the available material it is therefore accurate to state that she is primarily conceptualized as the personified earth in Akan thought and is not represented in the provided sources by a consistent visual form or set of iconographic attributes.
Asase Yaa's functions, as attested in the sources, are both material and moral: she is associated with fertility, love, and procreation (indicating a role in human and agricultural fecundity), with the dry and lush states of the earth (indicating stewardship over soil and land productivity), and with peace and truth (attesting a social and ethical dimension to her authority). She is furthermore described as 'Mother of the Dead,' linking her to the land as the receptacle of the dead and to Akan concerns about ancestry and the relation between living communities and their land. The sources present these domains as the ways Akan culture understands the earth-personification's powers and social significance rather than supplying narrative accounts of interventions or miraculous episodes.
Weaknesses
- otherNo specific weaknesses recorded in the provided sources
Wards
- otherNo specific wards or protective rituals recorded in the provided sources
Tano (Ta Kora)
Tano (also written Tanoɛ), identified in one source as Ta Kora (also Tando in Fante), is an Abosom in Akan/Asante religion associated with war and strife and, in Asante accounts, with thunder and lightning. The supplied materials treat Tano primarily as a named member of the Akan Abosom category rather than providing extended mythic narratives or iconography.
Asag
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Asakku
A class of Sumerian disease-demons born from the union of heaven and earth, who lodged themselves in people's bodies and caused wasting fevers and convulsions.
Asalluhi
Asalluhi (also Asarluhi, Asarluhe, Asaralimnuna, Asaralim, Asalim, Asarnuna) is a Mesopotamian deity primarily associated with incantations and exorcism. He is described in some sources as a son of the god Enki and is likely identical with an earlier figure called Asar attested from the third millennium BCE.
Asanbosam
The Asanbosam (also Sasabonsam, Asasabonsam) is an Akan folkloric humanoid creature that dwells in trees and is described as vampire-like, feeding on people who enter its forest territory and enforcing localized rules of the woodland.
Asarluhi
Asarluhi (also Asalluhi, Asarluhe, Asaralimnuna, Asaralim, Asalim, Asarnuna) is a Mesopotamian deity primarily associated with incantations and exorcism who commonly operates alongside his father Enki. He is likely identical with an earlier deity attested from the third millennium BCE called Asar (Asaruludu in some modern datasets).
Asase Ya / Asase Afua
Asase Ya (Asase Yaa) or Asase Afua (Asaase Afua) is the Akan personified Earth-deity of fertility, land, truth, peace and the reception of the dead. She appears in a dual-aspect as an aged mother of the dead and as a youthful fertility-bringing woman and is central to agricultural, funerary and truth-rite practices among Akan peoples.
Asbolus
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Ascalabus
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Ascalapha odorata (Hawaiian)
A nocturnal moth associated with death or misfortune in Hawaiian tradition, possibly tied to Central and South American folklore. (Note: - Summary should note that Ascalapha odorata's association with death/misfortune is found in Central and South American folklore, not explicitly mentioned in Hawaiian tradition. - Power tier: Primordi)
Ascalaphus (son of Acheron)
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Ascanius
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Community Record
- [1]Asase Yaa/Afua. Wikipedia, 'Asase Yaa/Afua' (summary of attributes and names)wiki
- [2]Goddesses in World Mythology (index entry). Dictionary/index entries referencing Asaase Aberewa; Asaase Afua; Asaase Yaa (cross-references indicating variant forms)other