Ashiakle
Ga · deity · mythic age · Recorded classification
Ashiakle is a Ga goddess of wealth belonging to the family of sea divinities headed by her father Nai, the great sea god of Accra. Tradition holds that she was born in the ocean and travelled to land in a canoe; she is invoked for prosperity, and her cult is attached to the coastal shrine complexes of the Ga towns.
Parentage
- parent: Sea God
Domains
- wealth
- sea
Powers
- to bestow wealth and prosperity drawn from the sea
Sources
- Ashiakle is the Ga goddess of wealth, daughter of the sea god Nai, born in the ocean and brought to shore by canoe.: Patricia Ann Lynch, African Mythology A to Z, Facts on File, 2004. (secondary); M. J. Field, Religion and Medicine of the Gã People, Oxford University Press, 1937. (secondary)