Master Smith of the Hausa

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)