Akan Mythology
Akan Mythology: The Complete Guide to Anansi, Nyame, and the Gods of West Africa
Anansi, Nyame, and West Africa
From the Ashanti and the gold coast of Ghana: Nyame the sky god, Asase Yaa the earth, the abosom spirits, and Anansi the spider, the trickster who bought all the world’s stories from the sky and whose tales crossed the Atlantic with the enslaved.
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Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the oral tradition and ethnographies
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The Land of Gold and the Akan People
- 02Nyame, the Shining Sky God
- 03Asase Yaa and the Sacred Earth
- 04The Abosom: The Lesser Gods of River and Sea
- 05The Ancestors and the Golden Stool
- 06Anansi Buys the Stories of the World
- 07Anansi and the Tricks: How the Spider Wins
- 08Anansi the Fool: When the Trickster Loses
- 09The Adinkra Symbols and Their Wisdom
- 10The Soul, the Day-Names, and Akan Destiny
- 11How Anansi Crossed the Ocean: The Spider in the Americas
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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