The provided sources do not supply an origin narrative for Tano/Ta Kora. What the material does state is that Tano/Ta Kora is an Abosom — a class of lesser deities or spiritual forces in Akan cosmology — which situates Tano within the pantheon of named natural and social forces worshipped in Akan religion. Beyond classification as an Abosom, no source in the set gives a mythic birthplace, parentage, or founding story for this figure.
The supplied materials contain no description of Tano/Ta Kora's physical appearance, iconography, animal form, colors, or symbolic attributes. No anthropomorphic or zoomorphic details are given in the provided sources.
According to the available source, Tano/Ta Kora is the Abosom of war and strife in Akan mythology and is described in Asante accounts as an Abosom of thunder and lightning. The documents do not elaborate specific powers, deeds, personality traits, taboos, or modes of interaction with humans beyond these domain associations.
Asase Yaa
Asase Yaa (also Asase Afua, Asaase Yaa, Asaase Afua, Asase Efua, Asaase Aberewa) is the Akan personification of the earth in Ghana and Ivory Coast, regarded as an earth-mother figure associated with fertility, procreation, love, peace, truth, and the dry and lush earth. She is also described in sources as the 'Mother of the Dead' or Mother Earth, occupying a central moral and material place in Akan thought.
Tang Sanzang
Tang Sanzang is the fictionalized monk-protagonist of the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, modelled on the historical Xuanzang. In the novel he is a devout, compassionate pilgrim sent from Chang'an to Tianzhu to retrieve the Tripiṭaka; portrayed as a reincarnation of the Golden Cicada, he is protected by supernatural disciples and is ultimately elevated to the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit.
Tangaloa
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Tangaroa
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Tangun Mausoleum
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Taniwha
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Tannin (Jewish Tradition)
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Tantalus
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Tanuki
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Taotao Mo'na
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Taphians
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Tapio
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Community Record
- [1]Tano (Ta Kora) — Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors, "Tano (Ta Kora)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tano_(Ta_Kora)wiki
- [2]Tano — Wikipedia (disambiguation/entry). Wikipedia contributors, "Tano," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanowiki
- [3]Wikidata: Tano. Wikidata entry Q3980892, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3980892other
