This popular grass variety originates from tropical and subtropical countries in Africa. ‘l might be seen as too Kikuyu’… hehehe…. The House of Judah fled Jerusalem and went back to E-gyp’t against the WORD of NGAI through HIS Prophets. Dont you think Mukurwe wa nyagathanga should be a tourist attraction site? Kenya or by sacrificing a goat under the Mukuyu or another type of fig tree, the Mugumo. He also states that the place like many others which he has given examples of, might be just a mythical place. The Kingdom of Juda occupied the central, and west Afrika according to 11th century maps of the world. A group certainly came from the South from the Taita region and is related more to the Kamba, Chaaga and Taita. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. They then migrated south to the central highlands of Africa in what is believed to have been the third wave of migration. Especially the spirituality, science and medicine. Top Answer. Occasions which may warrant sacrifice or libation include times of drought; epidemics; during planting and harvesting; and human life stages such as birth, marriage and death. Thanks for your insight. The Maasai territory reached its most dominant size in the 19 century when they covered most of the Great Rift Valley and adjacent lands from Dodoma and Mount Marsabit. Occasions which may warrant sacrifice or libation include times of drought; epidemics; during planting and harvesting She took the problem to her husband Gikuyu. The earliest record of the name was written by German explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf in the 19th century. They stopped doing this for hygiene reasons. Top Answer. From the Genesis 10 the genealogy of Ashkenazi the jews converts in the fake israel in middle east the land of Palestines are JA’PHATHITE and not SHEMITE. There were ⦠A short history of myth. I believe the name muthanga comes from the swahili word mchanga for sand and is not related to this story. Post updated to accommodate academic historian, Professor Gideon S. Were’s views and correct citations on 17th September 2011, Author and administrator of Gĩkũyũ Centre for Cultural Studies, Kĩgongona kĩa Ũũgĩ wa Bũrũri Witũ. During the 1982 expedition, Irwin was badly injured by falling rocks and was carried to safety on a donkey. It is one of the most important pasture grasses in certain parts of South Africa. To name that bird nyaga-thaga, the kikuyu must have used a certain criteria, and that same creteria may as well have applied in naming of the ostrich bird or the god ‘mwene nyaga’. There were really no strict boundaries between different peoples. 1985. For information on the ethnic group in Vietnam, see, Index of African mythology and creation narratives, List of African deities and mythical figures, Traditional African religion and other religions, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ngai&oldid=986134021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 00:29. Man and the Goddess of Creation came together and as the milk essence from the Mukuyu entered the earth, the Gikuyu and the Mumbi brought forth the ten daughters who became the mothers of the ten Gikuyu clans. rain- mbura . Gikuyu unlike Adam was not fashioned from mud but from the word. A good example is â Ngoâ for leopard in kamba. Where did kikuyu tribe originated from? As of February 2018, the current population of Kenya is estimated at 50,437,821 based on the latest United Nations estimates.The recent research from UN says that Kenyaâs population grows by around 1 million per year â 3,000 people every day â over the next 40 years and will reach about 85 million by 2050.. In the immediate vicinity of a huge fig tree. Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya) while prayers and goat sacrificial rituals were performed under the sacred Mugumo tree (a fig tree species). What they Are Known For. Let out history be it myth or based on facts be able to stand on it own truths traditions and beliefs. What the Gikuyu may have retained in their collective memory is such a point of dispersal which they give the name Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga, a sort of Garden of Eden for them. I just came from Mukurweini wa Nyagathanga 2 days ago. Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga means, “The tree where the Nyagathanga bird dwelleth”. Rarely will I, Mukuyu, use the term Agikuyu except when absolutely necessary. Never will I use the Englished term Kikuyu or Akikuyu except as a quote from some other source. What I know is that there is a bird called naga and that bird is the ostrich. They would cling to the myth even if scientists were to definitively “prove” through gene mapping and so forth that the Gikuyu originated in Egypt from a group of slaves in Egypt who fled the Pharoah to the South as another the Hebrews led by Moses fled North. if it doesn’t touch on others… please let no be allowed to distort and spoil a good debate as this one. In a fertile place ready for agricultural exploitation. God did not create the Devil. Thank you for pointing out that. Africa Global News Publication . So though we may yearn to have such a physical place, it may not be the actual place. Thank you for answering that question. May be its a carry over of ancient memories of creationism, the myth has also alot of astrology eg nine daugters=nine planets, a man= sun god, woman=moon, compare with otehr myths n u will find alot of simiralities, even Mt Kenya could have been sacred because of its amazing size and huge avalanches that occur in glaciated areas, may be they thought of avalanches as someone who restricted movements by dropping huge pieces of ice, think of it. It seems like myth has always had a greater attraction and meaning to humans than so-called facts and most Gikuyu seem to take this creation myth very literally as actual occurrences beyond question. The Kikuyu (also AgÄ©kÅ©yÅ©/GÄ©kÅ©yÅ©) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Central Kenya. The MOST HIGH CREATOR NGAI told the Children of Is’ra-el that if they disobey HIM they shall be the tail and no longer the head i.e they shall be South and not North anymore Deuteronomy. This kind of complicated migration story is not the kind of narrative that can be handed down in oral tradition and as Amstrong observes, “Unless a historical event is mythologized, it cannot become a source of religious inspiration”*** It cannot endure and history without myth is cold and lifeless. Thank you so much. it’s called Hinde’s Babbler Turdoides hindei. But all the other features mentioned are there – including a small river called Gathambara. Apparently at the time of Gikuyu and Mumbi this particular mukurwe tree was home to nyagathanga birds. The place was therefore called Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga, and this is where Gikuyu and Mumbi settled first. 1974. this is a very informative website. GITAU WA IREGI. Bantu. The Kikuyu and Hutu ae both from which linguistic group? He went on to write that: "This name is associated with KÄ©rÄ©-Nyaga (the Gikuyu name for Mount Kenya), which means: That which possesses brightness, or mountain of brightness. ( Log Out / The grapefruit is a cross between the pomelo and the orange. The Gikuyu is one of the âtribesâ among the forty two tribes in Kenya, and were originally located in Central Kenya around and about the foot of Mt. In the process of displacement and settle⦠That the site had a Mukurwe tree and there was a bird called Nyagathnga in Gikuyu that used to live there. ** Were, Gideon S., and Derek A. Wilson. The Meru - Meru traditions are very similar to those of their neighbours, the Kikuyu. The scene starts at the top of “The Mountain of God”, Kiri Nyaga generally called Mt Kenya. Kalenjin love their cows and land. Mount Kenya is the real Mount Sinai/Zion. Yes, It is also a powder used in ũgo but snow, also called tharunji is also ira in Gĩkũyũ. Sham/Shem is the progenitor of Abantu the Hebrew/Hiburu/Kabiru. originally its not white but after preparation heating it under a njiku you get Ira. Any ideas? Where a specific word differs greatly from its equivalent in Kikuyu, it is more likely that the Kikuyu one is borrowed and the Kamba one is the original. derogatory slang for "a Jew," by 1901, American English; early evidence supports the belief that it was used at first among German-American Jews in reference to newcomers from Eastern Europe, perhaps because the names of the latter ended in -ki or -ky. Wiki User Answered 2011-03-20 16:43:16. the 9 daughters of gikuyu. Over 4,000 years ago, the Bantu speaking people migrated from West Africa in several major waves of migration. And finally, it may well be that the place only existed as a metaphor and was never meant to be a physical locale. Ngai created a mountain "As his resting place when on inspection tour and as a sign of his wonders. It is alleged that when Krapf was traveling with the local Kamba people, he asked about name of the mountain, and the locals told him it was named "KÄ©Ä©ma- KÄ©Ä©nyaa" or "KÄ©-Nyaa." Other closely related tribes are the Embu, Mbeere and the Meru. Kikuyu is the English form of the proper name of the tribe, the Gikuyu. It may not be a coincidence that the name ‘nyaga’ is appearing in all the three mentioned. They could not pronounce the Kikuyu name for the mountain, which was Kirinyaga, mountain of ostriches. Helped in my homework research. The site of the first homestead according to myth was called. I am visiting this site for the first time now, and this may have been discussed elsewhere already. Out of 6,028,151 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Tyshima was not present. This is quite interesting and a great source of wisdom if not knowledge, The Bantu first originated around the Benue-Cross rivers area in southeastern Nigeria before spreading over the rest of Africa The search for the original location of Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga may have only began. Continuing studies in linguistics and modern methods in medicine like gene mapping, etc. I would like here to speculate that the practical needs for the establishment of a homestead like, availability of water, fuel, building materials could have been just as important in the choice of place as those of religious meaning, if not more important. Ira is not the white matter on top of mount kenya prepared from a special mud found on mt kenya. kill (n.2) "stream, creek," 1630s, American English, from Dutch kil "a channel," from Middle Dutch kille "riverbed, inlet." Ngai (other names: Engai, Enkai, Mweai or Mwiai) is the monolithic Supreme God in the spirituality of the Kamba and Kikuyu (or Gikuyu) of Kenya. As for a picture, also no. Ngai (other names: Engai, Enkai, Mweai or Mwiai) is the monolithic Supreme God in the spirituality of the Kamba and Kikuyu (or Gikuyu) of Kenya. For example, did you know that former American astronaut, James Irwinâthe eighth man to walk on the moonâled two expeditions to find the ark in the 1980s? Think of the sun and moon and the ten planets. it is a mall bird, smaller than a dove. This is that the group that moved to Northern Kikuyuland, towards the sacred Mountain was the more spiritually inclined and was mainly from Ethiopian origins. These places and such ideas and beliefs in the existence of a Holy Grail, a Golden Fleece, a Philosopher’s Stone etc. 2005. Many of the finest Kikuyu musicians originate from Gatanga and, as Emmanuel tells me, the small town still has the highest density of musicians anywhere in Kenya. ( Log Out / A history of the Kikuyu 1500-1900. My son wants to learn more and so do I. Now we can comfortably say we have a bird called ‘nyagathanga’. – T. S. Elliot. The Kikuyu of Kenya have about 6 million people. 13: 4-6. Kikuyus are partly Jews and Bantu. The land of Kannan is South Afrika the promised land of Is’ra-el. View all posts by Mũkũyũ, Very rich history. There is no mention of sin, damnation and the messy start of lies, deception, murder, calumny and acrimony characteristic of the Bible’s Genesis and which are the main features of Western Christianity. Ngai is creator of the universe and all in it. The Gikuyu origins are traced by historians as part of the greater Bantu peoples migrations in Africa,(see http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/courses/122/module2/bantu.html.) and am only 1/4 black. See Answer. So nyaga in Kikuyu means speckles and it is usually called twice “Nyaga Nyaga” when referring to speckles but with a “ma” added to begin the first Nyaga. Its worth it. meat- nyama . Are all these present at Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga? compares Gikuyu worship with the Adam and Eve story of Genesis thus:****. **** Wanjau, Gakaara wa, 1999. The Kikuyu people, who lived on the slopes of the mountain referred to it as "KÄ©rÄ©ma KÄ©rÄ©nyaga" in their native language, while the Embu people, who also li⦠Thanks for this informative genre of where we came from.i agree with dispersion of kikuyu .however i would like to know of any language trace of the kikuyu from Ethiopia route.im fluent in lingala of congo and its 75%kikuyu in only change in meaning in some words or pronouncing. this kind of discussion should not be brought to characters bent on distortion… I hate to say that most of women… but not all should not be taken serious bearing in mind that… most of their contributions are made with a ‘ fear of what others will think of me since I want to look good ‘. Many old Kalenjin can still be recognized by their stretched earlobes. Even that the bird and mumbi predated Gikuyu and had a special is very similar to the story of Auset, Ausar and Heru, Thanks a lot…. Call Him Ngai. you can get to learn more on how its prepared from Timau areas. which i felt too that it did not make sense to just dismiss otherâs thoughts with out even considering their meanings or intentions? Remember that in Ezekiel and Jeremiah the House of Juda is deeply urged not to go back to E-gyp’t in AD 70 after they revolted against Roman rulership, which provoked the Roman and caused them to burn down the Holy Temple in JERUSALEM two weeks from the 40 years after the CRUCIFIXION of CHRIST JESUS. Thanks for the write up. They were frequent traders with the well-known Masai tribe. Kenya, the snow capped second highest mountain in Africa at 17,040 ft above sea level. The original location of the Gikuyu Eden has been generally identified as being in Central Province near Gaturi village of Muranga District at a place called Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga. We all know Nile River is the Euphrates, and we have Trigris River to this day in E’thiop’ia etc. This is an art/Ugo of preparing it. Drawing from the similarities with Ancient Egyptian culture I believe that The Kikuyu did in deed migrate from Egypt. Am thrilled by such a rich history coz when i though about the meaning of our tribe i never thought of a Mukuyu tree despite that it was a very common name by old people when i was growing. Let us know how we can help to make such resource available to others. How “cleanliness in the home” was sold to the Kikuyu, Three Women, Three Regions – Gaki, Metumi, Kabete, Sin and Atonement among the Gikuyu – Thahu, Gikuyu traditional architecture documented, Colonial Perceptions of Gikuyu Architecture. I think mukurwe means the valley where kikuyu members of families were brought up, and nyaga means the wonderful bird created by ngai, a wonderful creation from God Himselfe represent all things and animals and birds created by ngai thats why in ceremonies kikuyu use ostrich feathers in most occation! The Gikuyu is one of the “tribes” among the forty two tribes in Kenya, and were originally located in Central Kenya around and about the foot of Mt. Kiswahili is accepted as the lingua franca by over 140 million Bantus but only 5 million speak Swahili as their first language. Mukurwe is a tree as you mention, but nyagathanga is not from sand and in this case is a bird called nyagathanga. 16th century slave trade…the Tribe of Juda and the E-gyp’tians according to Ezekiel30:26. A round stocky soft face and the thin sharply defined cheek and forehead features being the main types. Swahili is recognized a one of the official Languages of the Africa union. The Sacred Fig-Tree of the A-Kikuyu of East Africa“. They did this so that they could wear beads in their ears. The AGikuyu people are the real Children of Is’ra-el. The Kikuyu tribe likely originated in western Africa and settled in Kenya after moving through Tanzania. To describe the language we say, in singular, “This Kikuyu is speaking Kikuyu or this Mugikuyu is speaking Gikuyu”. your research assisted with knowing more basis about the descendants of the ancestors of China, the Sinae people, besides the many other possibilities mentioned or Like the spiral of the Gikuyu basket, kiondo, we have to follow the string backwards through all the stages, till we arrive at the naval, mukonyo. The word is preserved in place names in the Mid-Atlantic American states (such as Schuylkill, Catskill, Fresh Kills, etc. Gikuyu and Mumbi gave birth to nine daughters who got married and started families from which the nine clans of the Kikuyu tribe originate from. le3e2b is from the Mozambique female line of Bantu. That's what my DNA came back! learnt some lessons, it is good for people to learn more my opinion is that you should add contacts for us to be in position to reach you, Thanks you have given me alot in your writing. This is where God showed the first Gikuyu man the land below and instructed him to go to a specific spot to the South of the mountain where there was a grove of fig trees, Mikuyu. The Kikuyu of Kenya have the same folklore and similar traditions including the way they built their tradition huts. For speculative purposes only I offer my opinion of observed main types for what it is worth. Nyagathanga is actually a bird. DK ⦠We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. But my understanding would be in this case to mean “one who molds”, the name “Mumbi could be understood to me mean “one who creates” , but it could also mean “one who molds” in this case, I would imagine Gikuyu naming his wife “mumbi” not because she was a “potter” but more so because once he planted a seed in her belly, “Mumbi” had the magic to mold and transform that seed into a full “molded” human baby all by herself inside the womb. Like most African tribes, the Kikuyu came to their current territory after migrating from another region. Kenya. The writer indicates that she was named so because she was a potter. Kush. The bird preceded the woman and they have a special relationship and bond. Wandia you are amazing. I would be very much interested to know that bird (if at all it does exist) – do you know of where I can get a photo or a video of that bird? Get the book from Bookpoint, Moi avenue, Nairobi. though those who know this art rarely pass it on to outsiders. http://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/Y-chromosome-0806.html, Mount Kenya and Great Rift Valley View Point | Onlineglobetrotter, Gikuyu Origins | Gikuyu Architecture | wilsonjoroge, Wamuyu: The Unmarried 10th Daughter | Gikuyu Architecture, https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/b/Bantu.htm, Karũri wa Gakure: The Rise and Fall of a Giant. What seems certain is that moving bands of migrating Bantu groups dispersed from several nodal points notably Central Africa, Ethiopia, South Africa at various times. Yes. Many early scholars identified the Meru as a section of the Kikuyu. The context will usually give you a clear distinction as to whether it is the people or the language being refered to. [1] Ngai is creator of the universe and all in it. The Gikuyu seem to have been a grouping of such bands. 9 Jehovah brought about the Flood of Noahâs day in order to destroy the wicked. Post updated to accommodate Gikuyu cultural icon, Gakaara wa Wanjau’s views on 19th September 2009 . But i think gikuyu didnt come from mukurwe wa nyagathanga as the writer states, this is because even the origin of the name muranga where the place is located, comes from what kikuyu people from kirinyaga and end embu used to say ‘TWATHIE KURANG’A’ meaning we are going for a visit, so how could people visit where they originated? Where did the name 'wambui' in kikuyu tribe originate from? Much of their fertile land was confiscated during the period of Briti⦠The “Kī” in kikuyu denotes that “one has’ followed by that which “it has” , in this case “Nyaga” (speckles). [6], This article is about the African deity. We the Kikuyu have never been carried as slaves and the Arabs knew of it as they would be cautious whenever they came to inner land of the country, as they were killed in a painful way and used as a reminder for others. One of the first major civilizations in southern Africa was the vast and mysterious kingdom of Great Zimbabwe, which flourished between the 12th and 15th centuries. When the definitive article “the” is used, “The Kikuyu tribe speak Kikuyu language or The Gikuyu people speak the Gikuyu language” is also correct. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya, making them the largest ethnic group in Kenya. Asked by Wiki User. The map below taken from Google Earth shows that you will take the Muranga – Othaya road to Nyeri and branch off right at a market town called Karuri. I am a bantu speaking from Kenya (Kikuyu tribe) person- mundu . The name for Gikuyu’s companion Mumbi, means Creator which means she fashioned things from clay and as a potter she would also have needed a place with good clay just as Gikuyu would have needed lots of building materials. Kenya, the snow capped second highest mountain in Africa at 17,040 ft above sea level. Rwanda. Gikuyu consulted Ngai, God and Ngai asked him to make a sacrifice of a spotless ram under the fig tree “Mugumo”. The group that moved South towards the Coastal trade routes was the more enterprising and linked to the Kamba traders and trade routes to the Coast. The ostrich gets its name from the speckles of white and black on its feathers. The intermarriages with the Maasai, the Kamba, and the original inhabitants of Gikuyuland, the short Gumba and the tall Dorobo and Athi complicated the gene pool even further. We fail to comprehend I feel this view is influenced from his reading of the bible about the potter. How unique is the name Tyshima? Soon after her son was born she was told that he would die as soon as a piece of ⦠Thanks alot . Their neighbours were the Maasai to the South, the Kamba to the South east and the Embu and Meru to the North. I have no claim to know the bird but will keep that in mind. "[6] GÄ©kÅ©yÅ© and MÅ©mbi bore nine daughters who became the origins of 9 clans of Kikuyu people. Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya) while prayers and goat sacrificial rituals were performed under the sacred Mugumo tree (a fig tree species). My only suggestion is, we should not ho so far out of our history to find comparisons with the western history solely for the aim of justifying our cause and research. The Yam and it’s Support – Gīkwa na Mūkūngūgū, Gīkūyū Documentation Centre – Mūkūrwe-inī, How the Gīkūyū People Were Sold into the Money, Gīkūyū Marriage Ceremonies. The name Akikuyu or Agikuyu with the prefix ‘A’ is usually used to describe the people as entities and ‘a Kikuyu’ and ‘a Mugikuyu’ for an individual being. According to this myth, the first man, Gikuyu walked with God, Ngai, Mwene Nyaga, Murungu, Mugai, or any number of other names given to Him. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window). Most likely not possible. The name Gikuyu means a huge fig tree – Mukuyu, and Mumbi means Creator. It is my opinion that the use of the word ‘nyagathaga’ in this scenario is that ‘nyagathaga’ is a blind folded code for the centre of real power for the kikuyu people. It is normally called Kanyagathanga or simply Nyagathanga. i have learnt a lot about our culture. Regarded as the omnipotent God,[2] the Kikuyu worshiped Ngai facing the Mt. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! (see http://med.stanford.edu/mcr/2008/Y-chromosome-0806.html ) may some day shed more light on the origin and complicated gene pool of the Gikuyu. I could be wrong on this but I just wanted to put this theory out there and someone else might run with it and help shed more light to it. The answer unsurprisingly is that in all Kikuyuland it is the one place with the a good if not the best, combination of all the above. See Answer. Warigia. They are also business minded and are seen as a pillar of the Kenyan economy. The Gikuyu myth of origin like other myths of origin relates a garden of Eden scenario where God comes into the picture.
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