Tano

deity water Akan religion corroborated · 5

Tano is the leader of the atano, the group of gods from water bodies such as rivers.

↻ synthesized from 5 sources

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sibling of
Anansi, Bea, Epo, Bia, Bosomtwe

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Source passages

“Nyame and Asase Yaa went on to have other children, such as Bia, Tano, Epo, and Anansi.”

#822 · extracted by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

“Tano”

#2533 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Asase gave birth to two children, Bea and Tano. Bea is also named Bia. In some folklore tales, Asase is also the mother of Anansi, the trickster, and divine stepmother of the sacred high chiefs.”

#3044 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Tano, personification of the Tano River and god of the river and thunder”

#7686 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001