Rock outcrops and caves near Tano Boase and Pinihini, north of Techiman, where the Bono say their ancestors came out of the earth (the Amowi shelter) and where the river Tano, the great god of the Bono and later of many Akan, has his rock shrine (Taa Kora), at which sacrifices were made and sacred water drawn.
The Amowi shelter has radiocarbon dates of about AD 370-510 (Andah and Anquandah 1988). Whether the shrine was already the centre it later became is not known. Position approximate.
Who holds it
- Title
- Priests of Tano
- Since
- Not known
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
No lord: a holy place.
How things stand that morning
A holy place of the Bono villages.
Council
Not applicable.
Communities
Bono farmers; the priests and keepers of the shrine.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Tradition and the radiocarbon dates of the shelter.
Primary sources for Akan (Bono country and Begho)
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Ife, Benin, Nri, the Yoruba towns and the Akan: archaeology and recorded tradition (no contemporary text; traditions written down from the 1890s). No text of any kind exists for the forest belt in 1200.
Sources and studies
- Bono state (Wikipedia, citing Effah-Gyamfi 1974, Warren 1976, Ameyaw 1979, Crossland 1989, Compton 2017)
- Akan people (Wikipedia, citing Andah and Anquandah 1988, Arhin 1979, Posnansky 2015, Shinnie 2005, Konadu and Campbell 2016)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.