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Visual depiction of Asase Yaa

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Vol. II · Polytheism · primordial

Asase Yaa

Akan earth mother


a vast woman whose body is the fertile ground of Ghana, Thursday sacred to her, farmers pausing to honor the soil they work

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
primordial

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.