kingship tradition in,1: 366
Kwasi Benefo story and,1:41–42
magic beliefs of,2:501–502
nananom nsamanfonational ancestor of,
1:48,2: 712
Nyame supreme omnipresent being and,
1:70–71
Okomfo Anokye divinity of,1:212,2:487–488
pot making restrictions and taboos of,1: 170
puberty rites of,1:343–344
religion is present in all things belief of,1: 71
Tano river deity and,1: 212
Wesun and God concepts of,2: 637
Yaa Asantewa War and,1: 70
See alsoAsantehene; Nyame
Asantehene, 1:71–73
Akan clans and,1: 71
Asante bureaucracy and,1: 72
Asantehemaa (Queen Mother) selection
of,1:73
as direct descendent of Osei Tutu I and,1: 71
the Golden Stool (Sika Dwa) and,1:6,1:70,
1:72–73
King Otumfuo Opoku Ware II and,1: 72
ruler of Kumasi capital city and,1: 72
supreme ruler, king of the Asante and,1:71–72
Asase Yaa(Mother Earth),1:73–74
Akan people and,1:25,1:73–74,1:229,
2:583,2: 584
ancestors access through,1: 73
“day-naming” and,1: 73
Earth, fertility, birth, and death represented by,
1:294,2: 712
foundation sacrifice to,2: 584
honam and mogya return to,2: 637
propitiatory sacrifice to,2: 583
as upholder of truth,1: 74
wife of sky god Nyame,1: 294
Ashanti.SeeAsante(Ashanti)
Ashe, 1:74–75
alternate names of,1: 74
seen and unseen worlds bridge of,1: 74
Yoruba creation narrative and,1:74–75
Association for the Study of Classical African
Civilizations,1: 323
Asuar Auset Society,2: 458
Aten, 1:75–76
Akhenaten and,1:28,1:33–34,1:75–76,1: 303
Akhenaten city created for,1: 76
ankh symbolism and,1: 75
common people rejection of,1: 76
creative energy of all life and,1: 76
“Hymn to the Aten” and,1: 76
Amenhotep III and,1: 75
Nile River and,1: 303
as orb or radiant disk of the sun,1: 75
sacred asp headdress and,1: 76
solar god of,1: 75
Atum, 1:76–77
Amen and,1: 37
as author of divine kingship,1: 77
Benu bird, benben stone symbolism of,2: 528
earliest creation story and,1:76,1: 77
Ennead and,1:77,1:240,1:241,2: 651
Iunu city of the sun and,1: 77
Kemetyu creation myth and,2: 634
name translations of,1: 77
preexistence and precreation elements of,1: 77
as progenitor of the Heliopolitan
cosmogony,1: 77
Ptah and,2: 544
Pyramid Textsreference to,1: 77
Ra, Atum-Ra and,1:77,2: 557
Shu and,2: 617
Tefnut and,2:650–651
See alsoRa(Re)
Auma, Alice,1: 299
Ausar, 1:77–79
Abydos worship center of,1: 77
agricultural renewal and,1: 77
Anubis and,1:61–62,1:63,2: 710
Apis bull and,1:66,1:86,1: 141
Ausarian Drama creation myth and,1:77–78
Benu bird, benben stone symbolism in,2: 528
ceremonies and festivals of,1: 79
depictions of,1: 78
Eye of Horus and,1:251,1: 253
Great Ennead and,1:240–241,2: 651
Heru and Set conflict and,1:78,1:314–315,
2:609–610
holy family of Auset (wife) and Heru (son)
of,1: 78
mortuary ritual deity of,1: 77
myth regarding,1:78–79,1:314–315
Nyame and,2: 465
origins of,1: 78
as restoration and fertility god,1: 261
resurrection principle personification and,1: 77
Sahu or Sah (Orion) star system and,1: 78
shrine location of,1: 78Index 805