The Yeban

Collective figure for the Yeban — underworld earth-genies engendered by Ogo the Pale Fox, misshapen and incestuous like their father; they hide in the earth and engender the Andoumboulou.

Parentage

• Ogo

Children

• The Andoumboulou

Domains

• underworld
• earth

Powers

• Dwell hidden in the holes and caves of the earth
• Engender the Andoumboulou
• Dwell as the hidden earth-genies of the underworld
• Engender and instruct the Andoumboulou

Relations

• ancestor of: The Andoumboulou

Sources

• Griaule & Dieterlen, Le renard pâle (Paris, 1965)
• Griaule & Dieterlen, Le renard pâle (1965)