Divinità ambientali e creazione perdurante. Un caso di sacralizzazione della natura nel Ghana nordorientale

The “sacralization of nature” may appear to be a cultural tool to protect “Nature” and consequently to preserve an ancestral and immaculate past. The absence of a clear distinction between Nature and Culture, however, makes this issue more complex. Among the Kassena people of Ghana, sacred sites can be understood not in terms of the preservation of “Nature” as a bounded object, external to human life, but rather in the context of a neverending process of creation involving both humans and non-humans.