Sky God

Entered as a deity (Baule creator sky-god). The Baule are an Akan people who migrated from present-day Ghana, so Nyamien is cognate with Akan Nyame. Principal scholarship: Vogel (1997).

Domains

• sky supreme creator

Powers

• to create the world and then remain remote above it
• Creates the world, then remains remote and intangible above it

Epithets

• Nyamien
• Alouroua

Sources

• Susan Mullin Vogel, Baule: African Art, Western Eyes (1997)
• 101 Last Tribes, 'Baule people', summarizing Baule cosmology (Nyamien creator; Asie earth-god)