Earth-Mother goddess of the Akan pantheon; consort of Nyame; mother of Anansi per the canonical Asante recension. Goddess of fertility, agricultural productivity, and judicial truth. Like Nyame, Asase Yaa is traditionally non-iconic and lacks temples, idols, or priestly-class — the Earth-Mother is approached directly through libation, oath, and Thursday-rest observance. The Thursday-rest tradition (no farming or earth-disturbance on Thursdays) was strictly enforced in pre-colonial Asante and continues in folk-practice in modern Ghana. The Asase Yaa oath was the most-binding form of pre-colonial Asante legal-religious oath; false swearing on Asase Yaa carried capital penalty. Her name encodes the Akan day-name system: Asaase ("earth") + Yaa (female Thursday-name); the Fante variant Asase Afua substitutes the female Friday-name Afua, reflecting sub-regional ritual variation.