The Akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast believe in a supreme god who takes on various names depending upon the region of worship. The highest god is called by some to be Brekyirihunuade ("he who knows and sees everything"), Otweidiampon, Okokroko, Onyame, Awurade, Odomankoma. There are no priests that serve him directly, and people believe that they may make direct contact with him.
According Akan mythology, at one time the god interacted with man, but that after being continually struck by the pestle of an old woman pounding fufu, a traditional Ghanaian food, he moved far up into the sky.
Besides this focus on theism, Akan mythology shares animism and ancestor worship with the other African traditional religions: Spirits are known as abosom. They receive their power from the supreme god and are most often connected to the world as it appears in its natural state. These include ocean and river spirits and various local deities. Priests serve individual spirits and act as mediators between the gods and mankind. Nearly everyone participates in daily prayer, which includes the pouring of libations as an offering to both the ancestors who are buried in the land and to the spirits who are everywhere.
The earth is seen as a female deity and is directly connected to fertility and fecundity.
Finally there is he Nsamanfo (Ancestors). The Akan traditional religion pays respect to their ancestors.