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The Kikuyu people of Kenya include 22% of the country's population, it is likely that visitors to the country on a Kenya walking safari holiday, or sightseeing tour will encounter some of them visitors on Mount Kenya will be walking in birth region of these people, according to their traditional history.

The beginning of creation

Mount Kenya icy peak was home Ngãi, Supreme Creator Kikuyu people travelled from heaven to identify the country is now Kenya. Walking across the Plains were the only animals. From the throne mountain top changed this Ngãi of notice of the existence of the father of Kikuyu, Kikuyu people. Ngai province told him that all lands surrounding the mountain would always be home Kikuyu and his children.

Producing children requires a woman, Kikuyu next passed to a grove fig tree where he found a woman, Mumbi. This grove later became known as the Mukuru wa Nyagathanga, Kikuyu people's birthplace. Today it is considered a sacred place, Kikuyu, although visitors to Kenya, walking or sightseeing in the region the opportunity to visit it.

The nine daughters and their husbands

Kikuyu and Mumbi made love among fig trees, produces nine daughters: Wanjiku, Wanjiru, Wanjeri, Wambui, Wangari, Wacera, Waithera, Wairimu, and Nyambura. They grew to beautiful women who lived on Mount Kenya, walking across the Plains every full moon in search of women so that they can make their own children. Every time they found nobody without each other. Desperate, the referenced with Kikuyu petitioning Ngãi for help. Kikuyu gave and bowed before the mountain, passing on his daughters request. reply commanded him to ease a Ngãi fire among fig trees and make a sacrifice.

Kikuyu today sacrifice goats under a fig tree to call rain in times of drought. In these early times solved it quite different problems. After making the sacrifice and lighting the fire, Kikuyu put nine spokes into the fire and asked for men. The fire turned into an inferno, from which the nine strong young men appeared. Kikuyu took them to his daughters, and blessed by the nine marriages Ngai province.

The nine Kikuyu clans

Marriages were performed together on Mount Kenya. walking to their own areas of land afterwards, nine daughters and men did their own homesteads, create nine Kikuyu tribes. However, they still kept their birth in the mountains. All Kikuyu homesteads built traditionally facing Mount Kenya, whereas they speak a consensus between the clans, Nyumba ya Mumbi, to honor Mumbi.