Sky God
Krachi · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Supreme withdrawn sky-god of the Krachi and related Guang peoples of the Volta region. The 'withdrawal of the sky' aetiology is his defining myth; he features as antagonist/patron in the Ananse trickster cycle. Classed as deity.
Domains
- sky
- creation
Powers
- withdraw the sky on high away from humankind
- Hold the world's stories until won by Ananse
Epithets
- Wulbari The supreme sky-god who once lay close above the earth, then withdrew on high from the press of mankindA. W. Cardinall, Tales Told in Togoland (secondary)
Relations
- rival: Spider TricksterReciprocal of krachi_ananse.rival — Captain of Wulbari's host whose boast of out-witting the sky-god set off the trial-tales of the Krachi cycle.A.W. Cardinall, Tales Told in Togoland (1931) (secondary)
Sources
- Wulbari is the Krachi (Guang) sky-god who once lay close to the earth and withdrew upward after repeated human indignities, and who in tales is matched against the spider Ananse.: A. W. Cardinall, Tales Told in Togoland (Oxford University Press, 1931). (ethnography); "Wulbari," Oxford Reference (Dictionary of African Mythology), entry on the withdrawn Krachi sky-god. (reference)