Naa Korle
Ga · deity · mythic age · Recorded classification
Naa Korle is the tutelary goddess of the Korle lagoon on the western edge of old Accra and one of the three paramount divinities of the Ga capital, together with the sea god Nai and the war god Sakumo. Women seek children at her waters, and her shrine, Korle We, has long functioned as a court of first appeal in cases of witchcraft and spiritual malfeasance.
Domains
- lagoons
- fertility
Powers
- to grant children and fertility to women who supplicate at her lagoon
- to hear and judge cases of witchcraft and spiritual harm brought to her shrine
Relations
- subordinate to: Creator GodAs a kpele divinity, Naa Korle acts under the authority of the supreme creator Ataa Naa Nyongmo.Marion Kilson, Kpele Lala: Ga Religious Songs and Symbols, Harvard University Press, 1971. (secondary)
Sources
- Naa Korle is the goddess of the Korle lagoon, one of the three paramount deities of Accra with Nai and Sakumo, associated with fertility and the spiritual adjudication of the town.: M. J. Field, Religion and Medicine of the Gã People, Oxford University Press, 1937. (secondary); John Parker, Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra, Heinemann, 2000. (secondary)