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Kalenjin Mythology
Kalenjin mythology refers to the traditional religion and beliefs of the Kalenjin people of Kenya. Earlier religion and ancient deities Ehret (1998) postulates that the Asisian religion superseded an earlier belief system whose worship centered on the sky and which dated back to the early Southern Nilotic period. Traces of this belief system were captured among the Pokot as late as 1911 though nowhere else among the Kalenjin were similar beliefs recorded. Other than being centered on the sky, the older Kalenjin religion featured a greater number of deities: * Tororut: A Supreme God who made earth and caused the birth of mankind and animals and who ancestors of long ago are thought to have seen. He was perceived as being like man in form but with huge wings whose flash causes lightning (kerial) and the whirring thereof thunder (kotil). He was said to live above (yim) in a place with land, stock, ivory and every good thing. Tororut was perceived as an omniscient, universal father. All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalenjin People
The Kalenjin are a group of tribes designated as Highland Nilotes and are descended from Maliri people ''(thus related to Daasanach of Ethiopia.)'' The Kalenjin are cousins with Datooga people of Tanzania and Malawi. In contrast, their designation groups them with other Nilotes including Maasai, Luo, Turkana and Nuer, Dinka among others. They are indigenous to East Africa, residing mainly in what was formerly the Rift Valley Province in Kenya and Eastern slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda. Upon their arrival in the forest region of Mau, the Kalenjin assimilated the aboriginal hunter-gatherer people known as Okiek. They number 6,358,113 individuals as per the Kenyan 2019 census and an estimated 300,000 in Uganda mainly in Kapchorwa, Kween and Bukwo districts. They have been divided into 11 culturally and linguistically related tribes: Kipsigis (1.9 million), Nandi (937,000), Sebei (350, 000) Keiyo (251, 000), Marakwet (119, 000), Sabaot (296,000), Pokots (778, 000), Tuge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya
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Cheptalel
Cheptalel (also Cheptaleel) is a heroine found in the folklore of the Kipsigis people, KipsigisFish, B., & Fish, G., The Kalenjin Heritage, Traditional Religious and Social practices, Africa Gospel Church and World Gospel Mission, 1995, p.7-8 and Nandi people, NandiChesaina, C., Oral Literature of the Kalenjin, Heinmann Kenya Limited, 1991, p.46-48 sections of the Kalenjin people of Kenya. She became a folk hero as a result of being offered as a sacrifice (actually or symbolically) to save the Kalenjin sections from a drought that was ravaging their land. Etymology The name Cheptalel in Kalenjin mythology was the second most common name given to the supreme being, it denotes an attribute that gives the meaning 'controller of all things'. The similar sounding name Cheptalil gives the thought of a supreme being endowed with glory (lilindo). The two names, Cheptalel and Cheptalil, though false cognates are used interchangeably in common parlance. Cheptalel is commonly seen to derive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okiek People
The Okiek (Ogiek language, Ogiek: ), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek (although the term Akiek sometimes refers to a Akiek people, distinct subgroup), are a Southern Nilotic ethnic group native to Tanzania and Southern Kenya (in the Mau Forest), and Western Kenya (in the Mount Elgon Forest). In 2019 the ethnic Okiek population was 52,596, although the number of those speaking the Akiek language was as low as 500. History In 1903, C.W.Hobley recorded eleven Okiek communities, a hunter-gatherer society, living in western Kenya. He noted that a number of entire sections were bi-lingual, speaking either Maasai, Kipsigis or Nandi in addition to their own languages. Hunter-gatherer communities also lived on the eastern highlands of Kenya where they were known in local traditions by the names "Gumba" and "Athi". Language Many Ogiek speakers have shifted to the languages of surrounding peoples: the Akiek in northern Tanzania now speak Maasai language, Maasai and the Akiek of Kinare, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalenjin Folklore
Kalenjin folklore consists of Folklore genre, folk tales, legends, songs, music, dancing, Superstition, popular beliefs and traditions communicated by the Kalenjin people, Kalenjin-speaking communities, often passed down the generations by word of mouth. Mythology Origin narrative Prof. Ciarunji Chesaina (1991), recorded a narrative of origin known as "the seven brothers" that speaks of the origin the Kalenjin people. The narrative goes on to state that the man became proud and as a result his sons left him, and even his wife left him for someone who had more cows. The sons went off and founded their own families and those families grew into the various Kalenjin communities today. Places & things The Kalejin and indeed other pastoral and wider East African communities find deep significance in landscape features for it is by way of these that they relate to their ancestors and thus their history. Some popular legends based on landscape features include; Mount Kipteber Kipteber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
