Gods and Goddesses
African
Kono
Sa

TYPE: Chthonic creator god

ORIGIN: Kono [Eastern Guinea, West Africa]

INFORMATION: One of a pair of creator deities, with Alatangana. Sa inhabited the primeval swamps before the sky or the light existed and before there were any living things on earth. He had a daughter who eloped with Alatangana and bore fourteen children, three pairs of black and four pairs of white, all of whom spoke different languages and to whom Sa gave the tools of survival.