[2] Depicted as a farmer who loves to eat, he is kind and gentle and he has no alternate sinister (petro) form.
He is seen as a protector of peasants and defender of the poor, and is identified with Saint Isadore.
[2] Asaka is the loose female interpretation of him as mother of the earth in the Broadway musical Once on This Island.
Asaka is the mother of the earth as she oversees plants and all growing things.
She is thought to have a hand in keeping trees green and productive, for all eternity.