Category:Tano shrines in Ghana

English: In Ghana, especially in the Ashanti land, gives it several of Tano shrines or little temples for the worship of the Akan God Tano. Tano is the name of a river and also whose river deity is in the western part of the Ashanti core region. In the Akan religion is Tano a deity of protection and also the God of War. Tano as protection deity is also the godly antagonist of the death, with whom he is in continuous race duel. In the case that Tano approaches a dying person as first then this human belongs to him and the death has no right on this one. Tano is the twin brother of "Bea", another river deity in Asante. "Tano" and "Bea" are both "Abosom", which means "children of Nyame" and as such, they stand in the godly hierarchy of the Akan deities below the creator god Nyame.

In Ghana, it gives famous Tano shrines in:

• Asante at Saaman ("Tano Kwadwo shrine")
• Asante at Tomade (near Obodumase in East Asante, described by Missionar Dilger, 1883)
• "Tano Abenamu shrine"