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Feb 1 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Learn, re-learn, unlearn that Among the Agìkūyū, there lived a great medicine man called Waing'a. But his soon changed and in a song, he was labeled saitani
WAING'A THE GREAT MEDICINE MAN
ᴺᵈᵃʰᵘ̂ⁿʸᵘ̂ᵏᶦ̂ᵗᵉ ⁿᵍᶦᵘᵐᵃ ᵏʷᵃ ʷᵃᶦⁿᵍ'ᵃ ײ
ᴺʲᵉᶜū ᴬᵏiⁿʲᵒʸᵃ,ᴬᵍᶦ̂ᵗʰᵃᵐᵇᶦᵃ ʷᵉᵍᵃ,
ᴬᵏᶦ̂ʰᵃᵏᵃ ᵐᵃᵍᵘᵗᵃ, ᴬᵏᶦ̂ʰᵘᵐᵇᵃ ⁿᵍᵘᵒ ʸᵒʰᵒⁿᵒᵏᶦᵒᵒᵒ.ᴷʷᵃ ʷᵃᶦⁿᵍ'ᵃ ⁿᵈᶦᵍᵃᶜᵒᵏᵃ.
Gʷᵃᵏᵉ ʳᶦ̂ⁿᵍᶦ̂ ⁿᵈᶦᵍᵃᶜᵒᵏᵃ ᵃᵃᵃ.
Jul 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Agìkūyū grew these 3 varieties of maize.
1. Nyamūthaka- Purple grains 2. Nyamūkūū- White grains with a few dark purple ones. 3. Njerū- Yellow
They were planted in both mbura ya Njahì and mbura ya Mwere seasons. They grew very fast.
It was planted using a mūro or kahiū
ga kūrima.
Phenolic compounds in Purple corn have in numerous studies been proved to have potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic, anticarcinogenic, and anti-angiogenesis properties.They were also found to ameliorate lifestyle diseases, such as obesity, diabetes,
Jun 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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In Gìkūyū English Dictionary First Edition, we have documented Gìkūyū words and their English translations. The Gìkūyū alphabet and how the different vowels are pronounced and much more.
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May 19, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Agìkūyū Seed Preservation
One of the primary duties of seers was the storage of planting seeds. The community entrusted them with this duty because they were well versed in meteorological observations. At night as usual they studied the positions of the stars, for instance
the Pleiades, a cluster of loose stars in the constellation Tauras consisting of 6 visible stars to the naked eyes. Pleiades are associated with weeding periods hence Kìrìmìri the weeding stars. The direction of the wind and the cloud formation has a special message to the seers
Mar 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Definition of terms
✓Grandfather- Guka/Wagui
✓Grandmother- cūcū/ maitū
✓Father - Baba/ Awa
✓ Mother - Mami / Maitū
✓ Son - Mūrū
✓ Daughter - Mwarī
✓Brother - Mūrū wa maitū
✓ Sister - Mwarī wa maitū
✓Nephew/ Niece - Mūihwa
✓ Male cousin - Mūrū wa iya
✓ Female cousin - Mwarī wa iya
✓ Sister in law - Maramu
✓ Brother in law - Wamûgongo
✓ Father in law (your husband's father) - Iciciara
✓ Mother in law (your husband's mother)- nyaciara
✓ Grand Children - Tūcūcū
✓ Great Grandchildren - Tūcūkūrū
Feb 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Months in Gìkūyū
In our first book publication Mūgìkūyū Mūkinyu, we explain how the Agìkūyū named their seasons. We also explain the reasons behind each of the Gìkūyū names given to the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar. Below, are the months in Gìkūyū as per the Gregorian C
1.JANUARY Mweri wa MŪGAA
2.FEBRUARY mweri wa MŪGETHO
3.MARCH mweri wa KĪHU
4.APRIL mweri wa MŪTHATŪ
5.MAY mweri wa MŪGIRANJARA
6.JUNE mweri wa GATHATHANWA
7.JULY mweri wa GATHANO
8.AUGUST mweri wa MWORIA NYONI
9.SEPTEMBER mweri wa MŪGAA WA KEERĪ
Feb 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ululations ( ngemi) in the Agìkūyū Culture:
Ngemi cia Ugìkūyū
Ngemi cia Ugìkūyū ciarì igongona rìa mbere rìrìa mwana wa kahìì kana wa kairìtu arutagìrwo.
Mwana wa kahìì aigagìrwo Ngemi ithano (5) nake wa kairìtu inya ( 4)
Ngemi ici ciarì mahoya na nongorio kūrì mwana ūcio. Nongorio ciarì
Learn, re-learn, unlearn that Among the Agìkūyū, there lived a great medicine man called Waing'a. But his soon changed and in a song, he was labeled saitani
WAING'A THE GREAT MEDICINE MAN
ᴺᵈᵃʰᵘ̂ⁿʸᵘ̂ᵏᶦ̂ᵗᵉ ⁿᵍᶦᵘᵐᵃ ᵏʷᵃ ʷᵃᶦⁿᵍ'ᵃ ײ
ᴺʲᵉᶜū ᴬᵏiⁿʲᵒʸᵃ,
ᴬᵍᶦ̂ᵗʰᵃᵐᵇᶦᵃ ʷᵉᵍᵃ,
ᴬᵏᶦ̂ʰᵃᵏᵃ ᵐᵃᵍᵘᵗᵃ, ᴬᵏᶦ̂ʰᵘᵐᵇᵃ ⁿᵍᵘᵒ ʸᵒʰᵒⁿᵒᵏᶦᵒᵒᵒ.ᴷʷᵃ ʷᵃᶦⁿᵍ'ᵃ ⁿᵈᶦᵍᵃᶜᵒᵏᵃ.
Gʷᵃᵏᵉ ʳᶦ̂ⁿᵍᶦ̂ ⁿᵈᶦᵍᵃᶜᵒᵏᵃ ᵃᵃᵃ.
This is a song from a historical moment in Gîkûyû history.
The year is 1889, where
Feb 15, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The 12 clans of the MARIMŪ ( GIANTS) in the Agìkūyū community.
In this thread, we highlighte the 12 clans of the MARIMŪ (GIANTS) that long long ago were in the Agìkūyū land. Whereas there is often mention of the Marimū ma Nyakondo, there were about 12 clans of the marimū
and each with a king.
First a story..
When Gìkūyū and Mūmbi, had given birth to their four, five, six children, there came into their land humongous humongous people called Marimū ( giants) . By the time Ngai decided to completely wipe out these marimū from this land, Gìkūyū
Feb 10, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Ngwìko - Sexless romance/Non penetrative sex
Introduction
The Mūgìkūyū definition of Ūthingu- this definition is hard to translate.
" Ūthingu nì ūhoti wa gūikara ūtegwìthahia, ūtekwìiihia na u
Ūtekwiyananga handū hoothe, hìndì ciothe na mahinda moothe.
There is no single English word that fully captures Ūthingu in the manner the Agìkūyū perceived and practiced it. Therefore, for purposes of this thread we will use the word Holiness to mean Ūthingu
The Mūgìkūyū woman and man greatly valued Ūthingu. Ūthingu was like a fence
Feb 9, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
IGONGONA RÌA WAMŪYŪ MŪIRÌTU ŪRÌA ŪCIARÌIRE GWA ITHE NA KU
KŪHOYA KÌRATHIMO
Gūkū ti kūigūra kana kamweretho
Igongona rìrì rìa Wamūyū nìrio Awa Gìkūyū arūtìire mwana wake wa Mūirìtu wetagwo Wamūyū kana warigia. Wamūyū nìwe warì mūirìtū wa Gìkūyū na Mūmbi ūrìa
wagìire ciana no Ndahikire.
NONGORIO CIA IGONGONA RÌA WAMŪYŪ
1.Mūtumia ūcio Single Mother Kūrathimwo nìgetha akahota kūgūranìra anake na kwendia aìrìtu
2.Gūtuithania Rūrìra /Ndìra cia mwana kana ciana ciake
3. Ciana gūciarwo Mūhìrìga- Inì wa gūka wao ( baba wa mūirìtu.)
Nov 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Njoohi ya Mūgìkūyū nì ya kūrathima na nongoorio ya indo iria ikoragwo nacio nì ici
MĨRATINA
Mĩratina nĩ Ngai ũhandaga na ũũmbi waake ta nyoni,mũndũ angĩhaanda kĩtatina ona gĩakũra itunda nĩ gũbutha
rĩbuthaga,no rĩa kwĩmeria rĩtibuthaga,kĩratina nĩkĩo kĩĩgũithagia thĩ,nongoorio ya kĩratina nĩta kuuga mũgĩkũyũ akũraga nginya we mwene akanogio nĩ gũtũũra arĩkia kuona njiarwa,akaagwa nĩ kwenda no ti gũkua.
Nĩ mũgiro gũtua mũratina ũrĩ mwĩthĩ amu kũu no ta kũũraga mũndũ,mũratina
Nov 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Definition of terms; Post credit to Kikuyu Council of elders
1. Mūiti wa mbūgū (diviner)- ūyū nīwe mūndū mūgo na nīarī mbūthū ya mwano na nī aragūraga na mbūgū.
2. Kīoni - (seer) ūyū ndarī mwano na oonagio maūndū kumania na indo na andū. No arore mbakī, matu, njata, ona mara
ma mbūri kana nyoni na ahote kūheywo ndūmīrīri nī Ngai kana ngomi.
3. Mūgongoni (priest) - ūyū no akorwo e mūthuuri o woothe mūhe guoko gwa kūgongona...ona no akorwo e mūthuuri wa kīama kana kīgotho wa mūciī. Nī mekīraga ngotho ya mūgwongo guoko kwa motho.
Aug 27, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Learn, re-learn, unlearn that Among the Agìkūyū, there lived a great medicine man called Waing'a. But his soon changed and in a song, he was labeled saitani
ᴺᵈᵃʰᵘ̂ⁿʸᵘ̂ᵏᶦ̂ᵗᵉ ⁿᵍᶦᵘᵐᵃ ᵏʷᵃ ʷᵃᶦⁿᵍ'ᵃ ײ
ᴺʲᵉᶜū ᴬᵏiⁿʲᵒʸᵃ,ᴬᵍᶦ̂ᵗʰᵃᵐᵇᶦᵃ ʷᵉᵍᵃ,
ᴬᵏᶦ̂ʰᵃᵏᵃ ᵐᵃᵍᵘᵗᵃ, ᴬᵏᶦ̂ʰᵘᵐᵇᵃ ⁿᵍᵘᵒ ʸᵒʰᵒⁿᵒᵏᶦᵒᵒᵒ.ᴷʷᵃ ʷᵃᶦⁿᵍ'ᵃ ⁿᵈᶦᵍᵃᶜᵒᵏᵃ.
Gʷᵃᵏᵉ ʳᶦ̂ⁿᵍᶦ̂ ⁿᵈᶦᵍᵃᶜᵒᵏᵃ ᵃᵃ
Aug 27, 2022 • 11 tweets • 9 min read
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Aug 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The five virtues which form the pillar of the Agìkūyū are:
1.Honesty (Wìhokeku),
2.Generosity (Ūtaana),
3Justice (Kìhooto),
4.Courage (Ūcamba) 5. Temperance (Wìkindìria).
The late Professor Hannah Kinoti in her book African Ethics: Gìkūyū Traditional Morality
expounds on these virtues
1. Honesty (Wìhokeku)
Honesty as uprightness (Ūthingu)
Honesty as truthfulness (Ūūma)
Honesty as generosity (Uuma-andū)
Honesty as fulfilment of expectation (Ūhingia)
Honesty as diligence (Kìyo)
May 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Examples of taboos ( Mìgiro) among the Agìkūyū
a.If a cooking pot cracked while food was being cooked in it, that food might not be eaten except by women past childbearing.
b.A husband may not shut the door of his hut save on his wedding night c.It is taboo for young boys and girls to swing with the door lintel. They are wishing the death of their parents. d.It was taboo for a man to sleep on the side by the outer wall of his wife’s bed.
May 6, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Agìkūyū Science
The ordinary Agìkūyū people, before the introduction of convectional education, took science as mysteries and subjected it to medicine men. Otherwise, they had an insight in the general application of basic science in their everyday life,
just like any other community elsewhere. In any society, the basic application of science was either inherited from their ancestors or a discovery of their own, which in time became a component of their own development process.
Apr 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Agìkūyū philosophy and wisdom on eliminating Ill luck to a woman who had lost several children.
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When a woman had given birth to several babies in succession, all of whom had died at an early age.
Something needed to be done. Because according to the Agìkūyū, this was not just a mere occurrence but one termed as I'll luck.
So on the birth of the next baby, as soon as the cord had been cut and the baby given a family name, before being put on its mother's breast,
Apr 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
The original Agìkūyū Calendar
In Gìkūyū country, there are four seasons and two harvests. We can call this the traditional Mūgìkūyū calendar. Divided into: 1. Mbura ya Njahì 2. Magetha ma Njahì 3. Mbura ya Mwere 4. Magetha Mwere.
These are the main divisions of the seasonal calendar.
The Agìkūyū calender was not divided into lunar months. The Gìkūyū word mwaka applied now to an English year, was formerly the word used for the period from one rainy season to another, a period of about 6 months; thus,
Apr 10, 2022 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
Agìkūyū Seed Preservation
One of the primary duties of seers was the storage of planting seeds. The community entrusted them with this duty because they were well versed in meteorological observations. At night as usual they studied the positions of the stars, for instance the
Pleiades, a cluster of loose stars in the constellation Tauras consisting of 6 visible stars to the naked eyes. Pleiades are associated with weeding periods hence Kìrìmìri the weeding stars. The direction of the wind and the cloud formation has a special message to the seers