Asase is the wife of Nyankapon, the male sky deity, and is the daughter of Nyame, the female aspect of the Nyankapon-Nyame-Odomakoma trinity, all of whom created the universe.

In some folklore tales, Asase is also the mother of Anansi, the trickster, and divine stepmother of the sacred high chiefs.

[9] As the Goddess of Truth and the Mother of the dead, she governs the gateway to Asamando, the Akan Ancestral Realm.

The antelope has 10 coils on the left horn and 8 coils on the right, the right horn and the antelope with 8 coils on each of its horns represents Asase Afua as it is a symbol of fertility in the Akan religion due to Venus (the sign of Asase Afua) was said to be an eight-rayed star, with possibly cross-divided or divided eye, representing the waxing and waning moon, symbolic of fertility (Asase Afua) and death.

Before planting the person who is going to plant must knock upon the earth as if she was a door[4] During a child's outdooring (naming) ceremony, once the child's complete name is bestowed upon the infant, the child is placed on a mat symbolizing thanksgiving to Asase for sustaining its life and for allowing the parents to successfully procreate[4] As the aspect of Earth, Asase receives the deceased body for interment[9] The colour marron is associated with Asase due to its link to clay (which comes from the earth) and the clay, due to its connection to Asase is seen as a healing and purifying agent in Akan culture.

Earth, While I am Alive, And Nkwa to live Life without Strife Giver of Law and Ethics With Thee I am Still And when Death comes to Claim..

You taught us the tiller-knife, You give us law, order, and truth-seeing eye; Save you alone we would live in fear and strife.

We press our lips to your bosom, the rich soil, Ever turn with song and smile to holy toil.

[7] Nana Firimpong once you were here hoed the earth and left it for me green rich ready with yam shoots, the tuberous smooth of cassava; take the blood of the fowl drink take the eto, mashed plantain, that my women have cooked eat and be happy drink may you rest for the year has come round again.

Asase Yaa, You, Mother of Earth, on whose soil I have placed my tools on whose soil I will hoe I will work the year has come round again; thirsty mouth of the dust is ready for water for seed; drink and be happy eat may you rest for the year has come round again.

And may the year this year of all years be fruitful beyond the fruit of your labour: shoots faithful to tip juice to stem leaves to green; and may the knife or the cutlass not cut me; roots blunt, shoots break, green wither, winds shatter, damp rot, hot harmattan come drifting in harm to the crops; the tunnelling termites not raise their red monuments, graves, above the blades of our labour[18] Asase is the daughter of Nyame, the female aspect of the Nyankapon-Nyame-Odomakoma trinity and the wife to Nyankapon.

However a person, either Asase herself or someone else pounds their yam with a pestle either to prepare fufu for their children or just to annoy Nyame.

Annoyed, Nyame separates himself from Asase by turning into his true creator form; Ananse Kokroko (Great Spider) and climbing on a thread to heaven.

He does so, and, when the mortar is removed, the entire tower collapses, forever separating Asase and Nyame[19] In another version the woman who pounds her pestle against heaven orders her children to build a tower of mortars, one atop another, right to Nyame.

Needing one more mortar, the children took it from the bottom—and the whole tower collapsed, killing many[20] In a third version of the myth, Nyame and Asase are so close, humans were squished between them.

So man annoyed Nyame with cooking smoke, banging pestles, and slicing off chunks of the sky for the pot until he retreated further away from the earth.

[19] Or 2) Because he had tried hiding beans under his hat, but the beans were extremely hot and ended up scalding his head and hair, leading to him becoming mostly bald with a bit of oddly placed hair, where again people made fun of how it looked Either way, when Ananse could no longer stand this situation, he stole some food and fled to Asase's house.

[19] Worship of Asase was transported via the transatlantic slave trade and was documented to had been acknowledged by enslaved Akan or Coromantee living in Jamaica.

According to Jamaican historian and slave owner Edward Long, creole descendants of the Akan coupled with other newly arrived Coromantee joined in observation and worship of the Akan goddess Asase (the English people recorded erroneously as 'Assarci').