Creator God
Senufo · deity · Senufo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Entered as a deity (Senufo creator). The Senufo conceive the supreme being as a dual female-male unity: Kolotyolo the creator and Katyeleeo/Maleeo the Ancient Mother. Principal scholarship: Glaze (1981); Holas (1957/1966).
Domains
- creation supreme
Powers
- to bring the world and its creatures into being
Epithets
- Kolotyolo The Creator; the remote demiurge “who gives the day,” balanced by the Ancient Mother MaleeoAnita Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village (secondary)
Relations
- companion: Ancient MotherCreator and Ancient Mother, the paired male and female aspects of the bipartite Senufo supreme being.Anita Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village (1981) (secondary)
Sources
- Kolotyolo (Koulotiolo), the Senufo creator god, is the male/remote 'divine creator' aspect of a bipartite supreme being whose nurturing aspect is Katyeleeo/Maleeo, the 'Ancient Mother'.: Anita J. Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village (1981) (secondary); Bohumil Holas, Les Sénoufo (1957/1966) (secondary)