00:11Yami, the head god of the Achaian people, in the Ashanti land of Ghana.
00:17The Ashanti describe him as the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-majestic,
00:24one in one, and yet many and spiritually visible everywhere. All things in one, and one thing in all.
00:32They call him indivisible, boundless, infinite, giver of life and death, and giver of inexhaustible
00:40abundance. Yami, the forgiving God, and at the same time, the punishing God.
00:47The Ashanti and Achaian Godhead, is exactly like the biblical supreme trinity of God the
00:54Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The name, Yami was said to be derived from the word, Amen.
01:03He is expressed in the trinity of Yami, the Father God, Onan Kapom, the Son God, and Odom
01:11and Koma, the Spirit. In the Ashanti kingdom of Ghana, the term, Abasam, is a native name
01:18given to the pantheon of gods and goddesses of the Ashanti, and other members of the Achaian
01:24language group. The head of the pantheon is the chief god Yami. His name translates to he
01:32who knows and sees everything, in the Achaian language. He is called king of the Lozi people,
01:38and it is said that he was the maker of animals, forests and birds. Yami is depicted as a benevolent
01:46god, but sometimes, aloof, and distant. They say the sun is his right eye, which he opens
01:54during the day, while the moon is his left eye, which he opens during the night. The Achaian
02:00belief system, tells that Yami is self-created, in the sense that he owns all things. He is
02:08seen as creator of the order in which he lives, and thus, cannot be created by any other being,
02:15but his own being. Yami's adoptive mother was a goddess named, Nkila. A goddess created
02:22by her own son. Yami created Azasiya, the mother earth, as his divine wife. Azasiya, was the goddess
02:32of earth, nature, and fate. He and Azasiya, had two children, namely, Dano, the river god of war. And
02:42Baia, the god of wild animals. He sent his godly sons to earth, where they became associated with bodies of
02:50water. The Pantheon derived their power from Yami, and were said to come from him, and were part of
02:57him. They served as intermediaries and the messengers between Yami and other beings. Under the Pantheon,
03:05a nature spirits and tree spirits, called Asuman. Under the Asuman, are the spirits of the ancestors,
03:13called, Nsumanfo. Yami had other affairs outside his divine wife. One of his other sons, of godly
03:22status, is, Anansi, the spider tricks to god, bringer of knowledge and stories. Yami's mortal concubines
03:32were, Nasi Lili, Mwamba, and Mbui Mwamba. And his mortal sons were all influential chiefs. It was told that after
03:42Yami
03:42he returned to heaven, one of his mortal wives, Nasi Lili died a few weeks later. But it wasn't
03:50really told why or how she died.
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