Category:Asase ye duru

asase ye duru 

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The Asase ye duru is an Adinkra symbol (Akan religion, Ghana, Ivory Coast). It means "The (divine) Mother Earth has weight." and represents the importance of the earth for the human life.

(Asase is in the traditional religion of the Akan the Mother Earth personified thought as female goddess. The name is created from ase = Twi-language for "underside of something" and in his doubling Asase = Earth as realm of the deads but also as the location of creation of new life (together with the divine water of the male creator god). This dichotomy as location of the deads and as location of the creation of new life is symbolized by this "Asase ye duru"-symbol. One is speaking also from “Asase Yaa” (Asase born on a Thursday (Ashanti)) or "Asase Afua" (also "Asase Efua" = Asase born on a Friday (Fanti)), which has different consequences. Asase has the highest position in the hierarchy of the Akan gods and stands parallel to the godly triade "Nyame-Nyankopong-Odumankoma". Asase can be seen as relict of an older religion of a matriarchal society which was present in the territory of the contemporary Ghana before the Akan immigrated in these areas.)