Owuo definition
Owuo simply means death, sometimes referred to as Agya owuo. To them, it is a living element that hovers round man and bids him home when the time is due. The referral to death as Agya meaning father is an example of some personification used sometimes in the recount of their myths (Tylor, 1871). Here its usage is somewhat ambiguous in nature thus it can be better understood within the context in which it is said as it seems as satiric in nature. The Akans reaction towards this phenomenon is most intriguing to the observer who may have little or no idea that to the Akan death is but a journey. A transition from one state of being to the other. It is not to say that the Akan trivializes death, as there could be nothing further from the truth than that. For the visitor to any Akan community who is a witness at such a time would know that there is not even a speck of triviality in the mourning affairs of the Akan, especially if the deceased happened to be a person of high repute or of royalty. As such funerals were conducted according to the status of the deceased.