Soxo is one of the three sons of the creator Wuro and the Bobo god of the bush, or wilderness. In Bobo cosmology the world is structured by balanced oppositions, among the most important of which is that between the village — the domain of culture, safety and the domesticated — and the bush — the domain of nature, danger and the wild. Soxo presides over this latter domain. His sphere is the counterpart to the cultivated world of his brother Dwo's harvest masks, and the gathering of crops from the bush into the village is precisely the kind of act that the Bobo believe can unbalance the equilibrium of nature and culture established by Wuro. Soxo is named in the ethnographic and encyclopedic literature alongside his brothers Dwo and Kwere as one of the divine emanations through whom the otherwise withdrawn creator orders the lived world.