Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Fe" | Gai / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Tutelary god. By tradition he arbitrated a dispute between two tribes, the Chuilo and the Nyaio. The Nyaio were eventually defeated and Fe became specifically the god of the Chuilo people. He is propitiated by means of a dance in which a terrifying mask is worn.... |
Goddess name "Fe Gai" | Islands | Goddess who guards certain islands of the Ivory Coast. |
God name "Ka Tyeleo" | Senufo / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Creator god. Significantly in such an environment, according to tradition, he fashioned the fruit-bearing trees on the seventh day of creation.... |
God name "Ka Tyeleo Senufo" | Ivory Coast | Creator god Ivory Coast |
God name "Mbitumbo Baule" | Ivory Coast | Creator and guardian god Ivory Coast |
God name "Mbotumbo" | Baule / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Creator god. A generally benevolent guardian deity with the head of an ape.... |
God name "Niamye" | Ivory Coast | Creator god. Mbole, Ivory Coast |
God name "Niamye" | Baule / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Creator god. He engendered a consort for himself and proceeded to create all other living things on earth. His anger is evidenced by lightning and thunderbolts.... |
God name "Nyesoa" | Africa | The creator god of the French Ivory Coast. Africa |
God name "Orunmila" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of destiny. He accompanied the creator god OLODUMARE at the creation of the world and when the destinies of mankind were decided. He is consulted in an oracular capacity at IFA and makes decisions on such matters as choice of sacrificial animals. He is also a god of healing and in many households enjoys personal shrines which include palm nuts, fragments of ivory and sea shells.... |