ID: 901002550 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002550	Record Type: Character/Person

	Asase Ya (Akan deity)

Note: Akan goddess of fertility, love, procreation, and the earth.

Names:

	Asase Ya (Akan deity) (preferred,English-P)
	Asaase Efua (Akan deity) (English)
	Asaase Afua (Akan deity) (English)
	Asaase Yaa (Akan deity) (English)
	Asase Yaa (Akan deity) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<African iconography> (P)
		........<African characters> (P)
		............Asase Ya (Akan deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Asase Ya (Akan deity)
	................Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)
	Asaase Efua (Akan deity)
	................Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)
	Asaase Afua (Akan deity)
	................Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)
	Asaase Yaa (Akan deity)
	................Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)
	Asase Yaa (Akan deity)
	................Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asase_Ya/Afua#/media/File:Female_figure_on_a_gourd,_Akan_peoples,_Ghana,_Late_19th_to_early_20th_century_Terracotta_(2923632170).jpg