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76The Kikuyu language: Future tenses
This is the Second part in the study of tenses. The First part, The Kikuyu language: Past tenses,has been covered in a hub by that name.For an introduction to the Kikuyu language, go to the hub The Kikuyu Language: vocabulary and conversation...
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78Kikuyu Language: Numbers and Counting
The simple numbers in Kikuyu are as follows: 1. Ĩmwe 2. Igĩrĩ 3. Ithatũ 4. Inya 5. Ithano 6. Ithathatũ 7. Mũgwanja 8. Inyanya 9. Kenda 10. Ikũmi But there is more to numbers than this. Each of the words above changes slightly depending on the noun class.
2 comments77Akhenaten’s Grandmother and the Kikuyu
Akhenate was the Pharaoh credited with starting Monotheism in 18th Dynasty Egypt. Here, we shall be more concerned with his grandmother called Mutemwiya (spelled as Mutemwaya by some writers). Before we discuss Mutemwiya, two trees need to mentioned. These are the Sycamore and the Olive. The Sycamore, Ficus sycamora is a sacred tree to both the ancient Egyptians and the Kikuyu.The Olive, Olea chrisofila, was the ‘female’ among sacred trees to both the Kikuyu and the Ancient Egyptians. That said,
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88King Menes of Ancient Egypt and the Kikuyu
In 3100 BC, King Menes moved North from the south of Egypt probably from an area that is in today’s East Africa.and conquered the Delta.The Hieroglyph that identifies him has a mud-fish.The Kikuyu call a leader a Mũthamaki - The word is intriguing because it no doubt has the same roots as the Arabic word Samak, which was borrowed by Swahili as Samaki to mean fish.
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78Traditional uses of cattle
The cow has always been very important to Africans. In Ancient Egypt the sky was imagined as a Cow Goddess, with her feet on earth, supported by other deities. Her belly, full of stars was the sky. Sometimes she was depicted as a woman bending over the earth with her belly held up by a kneeling Shu, God of the wind. This shows how esteemed the cow was as a sustainer of life in the whole world.
2 comments74Chief Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu of the Kikuyu
Kinyanjui belonged to the initiation age set called ‘Njenga.’ Kinyanjui had been banished from his home area in Githunguri for some transgression which caused him to relocate to Southern Kikuyu. Muriuki gives his origin as Kandara. It is not clear at which point he joined Waiyaki’s company as a servant.
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95Kikuyu People: Secrets of an ancient migration from Egypt to Mount Kenya
The nucleus of the people called Kikuyu today came from the land of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. They used the Ethiopia route to get to Mount Kenya. According to evidence from power handing over ceremony described below, it took less than thirty (30) years for the first group to get to Mount Kenya region. It took others more than one hundred years to join their kin. This explains the variety of dialects, including Meru, now a distinct language. The reader will be taken t
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77Kikuyu People and the traditional ceremony of the second birth
Before the rite of circumcision, Kikuyu boys went through a ceremony of second birth.
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79Kikuyu people and the goat as legal tender
The goat was a very important animal to the Kikuyu people of Kenya. In pre-colonial times, most people had only sheep and goats to meet all tribal obligations that required payment. It was the rich man who had cows. The goat was the ‘legal tender.’ When one required the services of the medicine, or to join the society of elders, or even to get married, the fee was always valued in goats. Going by the old and current exchange rate, one (1) goat is equal to ten (10) cows.
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82Where did akhenaten Go? more evidence
Sometime around 1362 BC, Pharaoh Akhenaten disappeared from Egypt and was succeeded by King Tut. To this day his tomb has never been found. Could the folklore of the Chagga people of Mount. Kilimanjaro hold the secret to the whereabouts of his tomb?
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