Azaka Medeh is the lwa

Loa

The Loa are the spirits of the voodoo religion practiced in Louisiana, Haiti, Benin, and other parts of the world. They are also referred to as Mystères and the Invisibles, in which are intermediaries between Bondye —the Creator, who is distant from the world—and humanity...

 of the harvest in Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

an Vodou mythology

Haitian mythology

Haitian Vodou is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals introduced during the French colonial period, African beliefs, with roots in the Yoruba, Kongo and Dahomey mythology, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino Amerindians that once populated the island...

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He evolved after the Haïtian Revolution

Haïtian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic...

 when slaves were able to own property. Depicted as a country bumpkin that loves to eat, he is kind and gentle and has no alternate sinister (petwo) form. Azaka is identified with Saint Isadore

Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"...

. He is celebrated and affiliated with Labor Day in Haiti (May 1).

Azaka Medeh belongs to the same family of spirits as Azaka-Tonnerre

Azaka-Tonnerre

In Vodou, and especially in Haiti, Azaka-Tonnerre is in the same "family" of Loa as Azaka Medeh - the Loa of agriculture. Azaka-Tonnerre is a loa of thunder....

, lwa of thunder.