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  2. Ngai - Wikipedia

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    According to Kikuyu creation myth, Ngai created humanity, the first man called Gikuyu, and the first woman called Mumbi. Ngai created a mountain "As his resting place when on inspection tour and as a sign of his wonders." [6] Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi bore nine daughters who became the origins of 9 clans of Kikuyu people. "The names of the main ...

  3. Kikuyu people - Wikipedia

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    Kikuyu cinema and film production are a very recent phenomenon among the Agikuyu. They have become popular only in the 21st century. In the 20th century, most of the Agikuyu consumed cinema and film produced in the west. Popular Kikuyu film productions include comedies such as Machang'i series and Kihenjo series.

  4. Marion Stevenson - Wikipedia

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    Marion Scott Stevenson (18 May 1871 [1] –1930) was a Scottish missionary with the Church of Scotland Mission in British East Africa from 1907 until 1929. [2]Stevenson worked at first for the church's Kikuyu mission at Thogoto, then from 1912 for its mission at Tumutumu in Karatina, set up by Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur in 1908.

  5. Mumbi - Wikipedia

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    These nine deities/daughters founded the nine Kikuyu tribes. Gikuyu and Mumbi had a tenth daughter named Wamũyũ aka Warigia, who as a result of having a child out of wedlock, so the story goes, and went on to found or establish the Akamaba nation. Not much is said about her and how she founded the Akamba nation.

  6. Twelve Tribes of Israel - Wikipedia

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    The people of the Gilead region, and Machir, a subsection of Manasseh, are also mentioned. The other five tribes (Simeon, Levi, Judah, Gad, and Joseph) are not mentioned. [34] The Rechabites and the Jerahmeelites are also presented as Israelite tribes elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible, but never feature in any list of tribes of Israel. [1]

  7. Kikuyu - Wikipedia

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    Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) mostly refers to an ethnic group in Kenya or its associated language. It may also refer to: Kikuyu people, a majority ethnic group in Kenya; Kikuyu language, the language of Kikuyu people; Kikuyu, Kenya, a town in Central province in the Eastern African country; Kikuyu Central Association, a political organisation ...

  8. List of minor biblical tribes - Wikipedia

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    Ahumai, according to 1 Chronicles 4:2, was the name of a clan within the Tribe of Judah. [1] The name "Ahuman" appears only in this verse of the Hebrew Bible, and manuscripts of the Greek Septuagint read Acheimei, Achimai or Achiman. [1]

  9. List of biblical places - Wikipedia

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    Allammelech – within the Tribe of Asher land, described in the Book of Joshua. [1] Allon Bachuth; Alqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, mentiomed in the Book of Nahum; Ammon – Canaanite state; Attalia – In Asia Minor; Antioch – In Asia Minor; Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula)