Editing Anansi (section)

====How the Sky-God's stories came to be Anansi's stories====

One version of the most commonly-retold folktale was recorded by Rattray in his extensive book on Akan-Ashanti folktales,<ref name="rattray">{{cite book|last=Rattray|first=Robert Sutherland|author-link=Robert Sutherland Rattray|title=Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales; coll. & translated by R.S. Rattray, illustr. by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon|year=1930}}</ref>{{rp|54–58}} and as the tale generally goes, Anansi wanted to acquire the stories of the sky god [[Nyankapon-Nyame-Odomankoma|Nyame]], who held all the stories to himself. Nyame tasks Anansi with four challenges in exchange for them: the capture of the python Onini, the hornets known as Mmoboro, the leopard [[Osebo]], and the fairy Mmoatia. Anansi agrees to the challenge and includes his mother Ya Nsia as part of the bet. 

Through cunning and the consultation of his wife Aso, Anansi succeeds in tricking the creatures into his capture. Anansi brings them along with Ya Nsia to Nyame, and the deity assembles a meeting within his kingdom of his elders, the Kontire and [[Akwamu|Akwam]] chiefs, the Adontem general of his army, the Gyase, the [[Oyoko]], Ankobea, and the leader of his rear-guard, named Kyidom. Nyame then praises Anansi's achievements and announces his stories will be known as Spider stories.

There are substantial variants of this tale, with other retellings like Haley's omitting the characters Aso and Ya Nsia. Others, such as a Caribbean version, see Tiger as the one whom the stories come from.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Gleeson
  | first = Brian
  | title = Ananse
  | publisher = Neugebauer Press
  | year = 1992
  | isbn = 0-88708-231-9
  | url-access = registration
  | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780887082306
  }}A Caribbean retelling that is also produced in film version, narrated by [[Denzel Washington]] with music by [[UB40]]; see [[Rabbit Ears Productions media and release information]]</ref> Another common version of this folktale portrays Mmoatia as a relatively solitary Fairy capable of turning invisible,<ref>Paris, Stephanie H. and Morgaine Paris. "Anansi". Huntington Beach: Teacher Created Materials, Inc., 2010.</ref> while another does not require Anansi to capture Python.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Peters
  | first = Andrew Fusek
  | title = The Story Thief
  | publisher = A & C Black
  | year = 2007
  | isbn = 978-0-7136-8421-6}}</ref>