According to the Ashanti, the Sky Once was Close to the Earth...

[...] a woman [...] was pounding yams, and the sky [God?] got in the way so that her wooden pestle hit it continually, till it grew so angry that it withdrew out of her reach.

Cardinall, Allan Wolsey, The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; their customs, religion and folklore, London: George Routledge & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1920, p. 23.