Pasanta is the founding ancestor of one of the nine exogamous patriclans (kanta) of the Konso. Konso oral tradition preserves no single long-distance migration but recalls a gradual convergence of clans upon the highland from the surrounding Liban, Borana, Dirashe, Gawwada and Tsamai country over roughly the past four to five centuries; the Pasanta are among the lineages remembered as incomers, an expression of the Konso understanding of themselves as a composite people gathered by ritual and by the sharing of land. The clan is headed by a poqalla whose blessing sustains its members and mediates with Waaqa.