Sky God

Mossi 'Wẽnde'/'Wẽnnam' is both the high god and the word for the sun/sky; the elaborated personal name is Naba Zid-Wende ('Chief of Everlasting Truth'). Principal scholarship: Skinner (1964); Dim Delobsom (1932); creation narrative in Guirma (1971).

Domains

• sky supreme creator
• sun rain life

Powers

• to create the earth, day, night and living things

Epithets

• Wende

Relations

• spouse: Earth Goddess

Sources

• Elliott P. Skinner, The Mossi of the Upper Volta (1964)
• A.A. Dim Delobsom, L'empire du Mogho-Naba (1932)
• Frédéric Guirma, Tales of Mogho (1971)