Aberewa's Pestle Bumps God (Akan, Asante/Ghana)
Aberewa, the primordial woman, is a name given to the earth spirit, Asase Yaa.
She pounds her mortar with a pestle as she prepares food for her children, and the pestle routinely bumps against the sky. Annoyed, God, Nyame (the name means both God and Sky), goes away. Now Aberewa attempts to reestablish her relationship with him. To do that, she gets many mortars, piling them one on top of the other. In the process, she moves closer and closer to the ...