Bosou

HE CARRIES A DATE AND THE RECORD DOES NOT PRETEND OTHERWISE: the source anchors him to a named Dahomean reign, 1708-1732, which is the kind of detail that makes the Atlantic religions different from the rest of this corpus - the crossing is documented. DOSOU AGADJA IS NOT INGESTED: he is a historical king of Dahomey, he belongs to a different tradition key, and he appears here only as the reign-marker the source uses.

Domains

• petwo nation
• strength
• royalty of dahomey

Epithets

• Twa Kon

Relations

• of the petwo nation with: Dan Petro

Sources

• Reference treatment of Bosou: Bosou Twa Kon is served in the Petwo rite; Papa Bosou is described as a royal vodou of Tohosou-land in Dahomey, a deformed child of royalty during the reign of Dosou Agadja, king of Dahomey from 1708 to 1732, and the Tawoyo of the royal family at Abomey.