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Embu mythology claims that the Embu people originated from the current Mwenendega grove in the interior of Embu, close to Rũnyenje's town. The mythology claims that God ( Ngai ) created Mwenendega and gave him a beautiful wife at Gogo River Salt Lick , in Mukuuri , hence her name "Ciũrũnjĩ" or "Nthara".
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 ...
In eastern Kenya the prophecy was attributed to Masaku, a Kamba sage and chief, and Mwenda Mwea a famous medicine man as well as a seer from Embu. [1] They both saw a black snake coming and all the cattle disappearing, plundered from the Africans by the ‘red people,’ as the early white colonizers would be known.
The Mbeere or Ambeere people are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting the former Mbeere District in the now-defunct Eastern Province of Kenya.According to the 2019 Kenya National census, there are 195,250 [1] Mbeere who inhabit an area of 2,093 km 2.
They also form the third largest ethnic group in Embu, Garissa, Meru and Kajiado counties. [3] In Embu county the Kamba live in Mbeere South region and in Taita–Taveta County they are mainly concentrated in the Taveta region. [9] They share a border with the Maasai people and are literally separated by the Kenya-Uganda railway from Athi-River ...
In the early years of Kenya's independence, the Meru were in the Gikuyu, Embu, and Meru Association, a political mobilization outfit formed during the reign of Jomo Kenyatta. GEMA was formally banned in 1980, but since the advent of plural politics in Kenya in 1992, the Meru have largely voted with the Kikuyu and Embu in subsequent presidential ...
The traditional beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions. [4] [5] Generally, these traditions are oral rather than scriptural and passed down from one generation to another through folk tales, songs, and festivals, [6] [7] include belief in an amount of higher and lower gods, sometimes including a supreme creator or force, belief ...
The Vodoun religion of the Fon people has four overlapping elements: public gods, personal or private gods, ancestral spirits, and magic or charms. [5] In this traditional religion of West Africa, creation starts with a female supreme being called Nana Buluku, who gave birth to Mawu and Lisa and created the universe. [5]