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- The Akan people believe in a supreme being named Nyame

- The Akan religion is polytheistic, and these gods, called the abosom, hold power over their believers but are inferior to Onyame

- Ancestor veneration and worship play a big role in the religion, and they serve to encourage unity and morality within the tribe

- The Akan people believe in spiritual immortality. The souls of newborns are emanations of ancestral souls or reincarnated past lives.

Pictured: Akindra symbol representing Nyame, the Akan supreme being

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-In the Akan religion, they believe that there is a creator god that has different names depending on their place of worship.
- Some versions include Anansi Kokoroko “the great spider” and Odomankoma “infinite inventor”. Anansi is a huge figure that is included in many folktales, taken in the shape of a spider as a wise deity.
- The symbols that the Akan utilize in their history are called Adinkra symbols. One of them represents the infinite power and spiritual presence of Nyame, their supreme being of worship.

Pictured: Akan artwork depicting Anansi

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-The Akans have a naming ceremony that takes place on the eighth day that the child is born, called Den. They receive a name that has ties with their soul, the specific day they were born, and their potential/function in the clan they’re part of. The ceremony begins in the early morning, where prayers are said and libations are poured, and finally the name is announced by the eldest on the father’s side. It ends with a celebration all together where the child has to drink a cup of water mixed with nsa.

Video attached: Akan Adae Festival

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- The Akan Religion believes in the existence of spiritual entities

Many Akans are forms of Christians and often syncretize it with practices of Christianity.

- The Akans had an indigenous system of sacred values, beliefs, and practices

-Have religious practices that are based on beliefs that there is a supreme deity who created all the universe

- Have lower deities that assists humans on earth; similar to orisha in yoruba religion; vodun in West African Vodun; alusi in Odinani

- A polytheistic religion like other western african religions

Pictured: Early Akan art

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- Many Akan are now Christians

- Many subgroups of Akan people/faiths

- Believed to have originated with the Akkadians from Babylon about 900 years back

- Were driven from their home in the empire of Ghana (modern day Mauritania) to modern day Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Togo in 1076 by the Almoravids

Pictured: migration path of the Akan