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ID: 901002549
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002549
Record Type: Character/Person

Amokye (Akan character)

Note: In the religious traditions of the Akan, the woman who guards the entrance to the land of the dead, Asamando.

Names:
Amokye (Akan character) (preferred,English-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<African iconography> (P)
........<African characters> (P)
............Amokye (Akan character) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... character (person by activity)
.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Akan (culture or style)
.....(Guinea Coast styles, West African (general), African by cultural or regional designation, African (general, continental cultures), styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Amokye (Akan character)
................Ranger and Kimambo, Historical Study of African Religion (1976)

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