Earth Goddess

Earth-cult power entered as a deity. Mooré 'tẽnga' = earth/land; the earth-priest is 'tengsoba' (lord of the earth) or 'tengdana'. Sources: Skinner (1964); Dim Delobsom (1932).

Domains

• earth land
• fertility agriculture
• justice oath

Powers

• to grant or withhold the fertility of the soil
• to punish the spilling of blood and the breaking of oaths upon the land

Epithets

• tenga

Relations

• spouse: Sky God

Sources

• Elliott P. Skinner, The Mossi of the Upper Volta (1964)
• Wikipedia, 'Tengsoba', on the tengsoba/tengdana earth-priesthood and earth-shrines