Meru Origins, Customs, Culture and Traditions

Meru Origins, Customs, Culture and Traditions
Author: Mercy KATHAMBI G. OMBUI
Publisher:
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980231493

Every community in the whole world both international and nationally with its people; has had a culture, customs and traditions that have for centuries survived to maintain those communities united against combats in their existence. Thus, if you wish to understand the community and its people; you must first understand and familiarize yourself with their customs, culture and traditions in order to appreciate them fully.It is in culture and traditions that people's morals, ethics, attitudes, approaches, behavior, comportment, generosity, humility or even hostility is displayed and gauged. Meru community is a group of the Bantus who crossed the Red Sea in a style of good comportment and inestimable hospitality that characterizes their existence in harmony and solid unification for existence.It is in the customs of the community that you will ever get to know and understand their origins as to whether they ever dealt with God fearing people in their past or not. If they originated near and from arrogant, haughty and conceited communities, who do not know, respect and fear God; their customs always survive to betray them. Their present tradition is fully with undying and enduring evil of stealing their neighbors' property and attacking their neighbors for no reasons at all. The reason for that behavior on their side is because they are less God-fearing people from their origins. This gives and forms another good reason for studying peoples' and communities' origins in time for early taming and future corrections by the National Government through an education system and syllabus affecting such people.Let it be clear and be understood that Kenyans in their entirety 42 tribes; did not originate from one point, place, residence, habitation or abode when they migrated into the Kenyan soil many centuries ago. Kenyans entered Kenya from different routes many centuries past; and their diversity is their signature and stamp to that mark of history. Some Kenyans are soft and others are arrogant, while others are wish thinkers and day-dreamers. We are all Kenyans in our Kenya.But remember that stealing, dreadful and outrageous neighborhoods are the worst enemies of any society. Stealing and misbehavior are two evils that destroy any community within the shortest possible time in people's life. Even in the Holy Bible humans are warned against the squabbling neighbors. See and read the story of Moses the sojourner - Deuteronomy 2:2-7 - where Moses was commanded not to attack or steal from Ishmael's descendants while retracing his route to Canaan.Our guaranteed and unshakable belief is that Meru community lived beyond the Red Sea and eventually one day they decided to cross the Sea. Their mode of crossing is disputable and quite distressing; while remembering that in those days, means of Sea travel was underdeveloped. But since the fact is that our forefathers lived beyond Red Sea and now today we live in Meru County, Kenya in Africa; we must believe that we crossed the Red Sea long ago; but how long ago, we are not very sure, though we can vaguely guess that it was around 9th, Century A.D.From that epoch Meru community has lived united as much as the donkeys' hoof which is solid, and which is in Meru language an African proverb (We are as united as the donkeys' hoof) that was coined by their ancestral lea

Politics of the Womb

Politics of the Womb
Author: Lynn M. Thomas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520235403

"In Thomas's skilled hands, and in her unabashed love of story-telling, intimate events in Kenya help us think more clearly and more critically about Africa in the twentieth century. The politics of the womb are at the core of the colonial experience and of colonial politics…. Africans struggled amongst themselves over the regulation of reproduction, and these layers of intimate strife, and the policies and protests emanating from London and mission hospitals and African homesteads, give us something we haven't had before-- a gendered and transnational colonial history."—Luise White, author of Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

Meru Myths, Proverbs and Legends (njuno and Ntemi)

Meru Myths, Proverbs and Legends (njuno and Ntemi)
Author: Henry MWERERIA
Publisher:
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781549717154

No community has ever existed without its Proverbs and or sages. in Meru, Kenya when the community crossed the Red Sea, there and then referred to as Mboa, people were united by their language, culture, traditions and customs which were bound and driven by history and proverbs accompanied with sages that governed and ruled the community for centuries.Read these proverbs and sages to understand how social life of this community was geared towards posterity and existence in a diverse world that required peace and tranquility. They have been written in Vernacular and interpreted in English for the wide reading and comparison against of other languages and communities.No community has ever survived without its Myths and Legends. People and communities have transmitted and preserved their beliefs, culture and traditions through Myths, Legends, Proverbs and Sages for generations. These four natural tools give readers the the kind of lives the community lived in the past without asking many questions.Reading this book is understanding the community in general. Please read on......

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies
Author: Abbe J.A. Dubois
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 757
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1602063362

French cleric and scholar of Sanskrit J. A. DUBOIS (1770-1848) journeyed to and around India as a missionary in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and turned his decades of observation into what was, for many years, the definitive Western work on Indian culture. This revised English-language edition, published in 1905, includes Dubois's notes and thoughts on. . the caste system, its antiquity and origins . etiquette and customs among the Brahmin . dress and ornamentation . the roles and positions of women . Hindu tales and fables . religious feast, temples, and ceremonies . and much more.