ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the wide area of ground and describes the early years and the establishment of the states which were destined to play a great part in later history. The religion of the Ga shows that the present population of the Accra plain is a mixed one. In every town there is a twofold hierarchy of gods; the gods which the Ga invaders brought with them from the east have settled down among the aboriginal gods of lagoon and rock. The disaffected sections of the Ga army went into battle with a private understanding with the enemy, to the effect that they would take no part in the fighting. Akwamu tradition is strangely silent on this great period in Akwamu history, and it is difficult even to reconcile the names of the chiefs of Akwamu as recorded in Akwamu tradition with those recorded by Bosman and other outside observers.
