Master Smith of the Hausa

Songhai · deity · Songhay/Zarma oral tradition; living holey cult · deity

Spirit-class figure (a Tooru) entered as a deity. Songhay 'koy' = lord/owner; 'Hausakoy' = 'lord of the Hausa', i.e. the smith-spirit. Scholarship: Stoller (1989); Rouch (1960/1989).

Domains

blacksmithing iron
fire forge

Powers

to forge iron at the spirit-world's anvil
forge iron at the spirit-world anvil

Epithets

Hausakoy

Relations

descendant of: River Mother of the Niger
sibling: Thunder

Sources

Paul Stoller, Fusion of the Worlds (1989)
Jean Rouch, La religion et la magie songhay (1960/1989)

Open in the interactive app →