Asase Yaa is the Earth goddess of fertility and the harvest of the Ashanti people in Ghana. Worship of Asase spread to Jamaica with the slave trade.

In the Akan religion, still practiced in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, Asase Yaa is the wife of the creator god, sometimes called Nyame. She is second to him in the pantheon but more powerfully tied to humans as he is distant and does not interact with mortals.

Asase Yaa is worshipped in the fields, rather than at a temple. By dance and ritual, the Akan people connect to their ancestors.

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