Creator God

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

Relations

• companion: Ancient Mother

Sources

• Anita J. Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village (1981)
• Bohumil Holas, Les Sénoufo (1957/1966)