Earth God
Baule · deity · Baule traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Entered as a deity (Baule earth-god). 'Asye usu' = bush/earth spirits, channeled by 'komien' diviners. Principal scholarship: Vogel (1997).
Domains
- earth land
- creatures living world
Powers
- to govern humans, animals and the life of the earth
- Governs humans, animals and the life of the earth
Epithets
- Asie The Earth; the goddess of the ground from whom the spirits (asie usu) ariseBaule (Côte d’Ivoire) ethnography (S. Vogel) (secondary)
Sources
- Asie (Asye), the Baule earth-god, is the active power governing humans and animals and the realm of the wild bush-spirits (asye usu), in contrast to the remote sky-creator Nyamien.: Susan Mullin Vogel, Baule: African Art, Western Eyes (1997) (secondary); 101 Last Tribes, 'Baule people' (secondary)