Couple of Asie Usu

The Asié usu are the geniuses or spirits of nature who can intervene in the world of humans by granting them their favors or tormenting them. As in the case of the husbands of the other world, the diviner will advise that a wooden image be made as beautiful as possible because some geniuses or spirits of nature are so horrible and countered that in their dealings with humans they want to adopt a more convenient appearance and to resemble them in all possible ways and that therefore the habitation that incarnates them is as pleasant as possible in the eyes of humans and also to be of the likes of the genius so that feeling satisfied to dwell in it is propitiatory. Thus the sculptor who performs the work will try to make a representation as beautiful as possible. Usually the character of these statuettes is usually sitting on a throne Akan and wear a long beard and sometimes an egg in the hand, symbol of the universe, which only affirms the authority of the genius, while extolling his majestic authority.

In this case they have taken the form of a mystical couple or husbands of the afterlife, Blolo Bla the wife and blolo bian There is a lot of error in interpreting these figures that are often catalogued as mystical husbands. By definition, if the wife or mystical husband is in the hereafter they can never be together in this world. Black patina.