Sakumo
Ga · deity · mythic age · Recorded classification
Sakumo is among the most important of the Ga kpele deities: the god of war and of the Sakumo lagoon, credited in tradition with leading the Ga people in their migrations and wars. His priest, the Sakumo wulomo, historically held quasi-political authority in Accra, and his shrine remains one of the town's courts of first appeal in spiritual disputes and hosts central rites of the Homowo festival cycle.
Domains
- war
- lagoons
Powers
- to grant victory in war and protect the Ga towns in battle
- to hear oaths and judge accusations of spiritual wrongdoing at his shrine
Relations
- subordinate to: Creator GodLike all kpele gods, Sakumo exercises his powers under the supreme creator Ataa Naa Nyongmo.Marion Kilson, Kpele Lala: Ga Religious Songs and Symbols, Harvard University Press, 1971. (secondary)
Sources
- Sakumo is the Ga war god and tutelary deity of the Sakumo lagoon, one of the three paramount deities of Accra alongside Nai and Korle.: 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)