Sky God
Baule · deity · Baule traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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 The supreme sky-god and creator, remote above the worldBaule (Côte d’Ivoire) ethnography (secondary)
- Alouroua alternate name of the supreme creatorVogel, Susan Mullin (1997). Baule: African Art, Western Eyes. (secondary)
Sources
- Nyamien (Nyamye), the Baule sky-god, is the intangible and inaccessible creator and supreme being; as an Akan-derived people the Baule cognate him with the wider Akan high god Nyame, while everyday worship centers on the earth-god Asie and the spirits.: Susan Mullin Vogel, Baule: African Art, Western Eyes (1997) (secondary); 101 Last Tribes, 'Baule people', summarizing Baule cosmology (Nyamien creator; Asie earth-god) (secondary)