Amokye

{{Short description|Ashanti goddess}}

In the religious traditions of the Akan people and the Nice people of Ghana, Amokye is the woman who guards the entrance to the other world,{{Cite book|last=PhD|first=Patricia Monaghan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj5OAwAAQBAJ&dq=Amokye&pg=PA420|title=Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines|date=2014-04-01|publisher=New World Library|isbn=978-1-60868-218-8|pages=4|language=en}} which is called Asamando{{Cite book|last1=Asante|first1=Molefi Kete|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B667ATiedQkC&dq=Amokye&pg=PT73|title=Encyclopedia of African Religion|last2=Mazama|first2=Ama|date=2009|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-4129-3636-1|pages=41|language=en}} (the Land of the Dead).{{Cite book|last1=Lynch|first1=Patricia Ann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Qiq4ps_wDIC&dq=Amokye&pg=PT33|title=African Mythology, A to Z|last2=Roberts|first2=Jeremy|date=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3133-7|pages=7|language=en}} She is the woman who welcomes the souls of dead individuals to the otherworld. According to the beliefs, Ashanti people were dressed for bury in amoasie (loincloths) and jewelry, which they gave to Amokye as payment for allowing them to Asamando.