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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Kalenjin livestock(kiagik)
Kalenjin livestock(kiagik)
- SHEEP- {kechirek},
- subendo - female sheep/ewe,
- Mengit -male sheep/Ram,
- Araget- barren female sheep,
- GOATS - ngororek,
- artet - mature female goat/nanny/doe,
- kwesta - mature male goat/billy/buck
- arwab ngoror- young one of goat/kid
- COWS- Tuga
- Eiik/Eito- oxen
- Iwoket -female
- Kirkit - Bull.
- Moita - calf.
- Soonet - barrel Cow.
General terminologies amongst the kalenjins
- Embwen -settled area at same altitude
- Imbaret ap mosop- household millet plot
- Imbaret ap soi- homestead millet or maize plot
- Injor- eastern side of room
- Kaptich- cattle hut (elder's hut)
- kimonjogut- apical roof post
- koima - western side of room
- kong' asis- the east
- kok- men's sitting place outdoors
- kotap mosop- married woman's house
- mostinwek- fire / fires
- mabwaita- family altar
- Mosop- higher, fertile land
- sandet -sister's husband
- singroina- bachelors' hut
- Soin -lower grasslands, open grazing
- somet -girls' initiation room
- toloch (talach), toloita -support post in house
- Waldai -lower land, extensively farmed
Names of persons by body posture
Kalenjin Named people by body posture some of the below are names which are common in kalenjin:
- Kettienya/ koisiom - bow legged,
- kiptesot/Kibilo/Chesilim- short
- Kipkeles- short/dwarf person,
- Sigilai/Tororei - tall,
- Cheseng'eny - irregular and protruding teeth,
- Chebitet - hard body,
- Buigut -thick lips and stammerer,
- Bommet - big headed,
- Chebusit -large ears,
- Chemase -hairy head,
- Chemiron -stammerer,
- Chebelyon/Cheptyong -huge body,
- Sambu - hairy body,
- Tuikong -dark eyes
- Tuimising - very dark complexion
Kalenjin cultural body tattooing techniques
Kalenjin cultural body tattooing techniques:
1. lootetab kelek - Two lower teeth were removed, gap was used to give liquid incase of lockjaw
2. Kaapolobi - face marks cut on forehead and cheeks where grain of sand was placed of wound to raise it.
3. Peleetab soremik - dry sap of tree was mixed with munyeiweek and heated on skin of hand and thighs. (Myths- whoever does not burn soremik when he is married the hyenas will eat him with his wife.)
4. Ndipchoot - Piercing of the upper ears to instill courage for facing pain and to prepare ear for wearing ornaments i.e kipsosoiyat.
5. Parpareetab iitik - was done by using loinet i.e small arrow for bleeding animals and a sharp knife and kipalbaliat was placed to enlarge the ear
1. lootetab kelek - Two lower teeth were removed, gap was used to give liquid incase of lockjaw
2. Kaapolobi - face marks cut on forehead and cheeks where grain of sand was placed of wound to raise it.
3. Peleetab soremik - dry sap of tree was mixed with munyeiweek and heated on skin of hand and thighs. (Myths- whoever does not burn soremik when he is married the hyenas will eat him with his wife.)
4. Ndipchoot - Piercing of the upper ears to instill courage for facing pain and to prepare ear for wearing ornaments i.e kipsosoiyat.
5. Parpareetab iitik - was done by using loinet i.e small arrow for bleeding animals and a sharp knife and kipalbaliat was placed to enlarge the ear
Various Kalenjin marriages
Various Kalenjin marriages:
1. kitunji toloch - occurs when married woman become barren hence she will marry another woman known as, "kapsirwonin" to give birth on her behalf,
2. Kabwatereret - occurs when very young boy and girl under 10 yrs parents agreed for their marriage i.e booking in advance
3. Museet - occurs when mother arranges wife for her son who is battle field so that incase of eventuality somebody mainly his brother can assist
4.Katunisitab tororyet - Important ceremony performed late in life to show respect for couple who
had been married for many years
5.Kandiet- invoves inheritance and taking of responsibility by brother to his brother widow
6.Keeturum saandet - ceremony performed as aresult of infidelity of wife where her parent pays a bull as fine.
1. kitunji toloch - occurs when married woman become barren hence she will marry another woman known as, "kapsirwonin" to give birth on her behalf,
2. Kabwatereret - occurs when very young boy and girl under 10 yrs parents agreed for their marriage i.e booking in advance
3. Museet - occurs when mother arranges wife for her son who is battle field so that incase of eventuality somebody mainly his brother can assist
4.Katunisitab tororyet - Important ceremony performed late in life to show respect for couple who
had been married for many years
5.Kandiet- invoves inheritance and taking of responsibility by brother to his brother widow
6.Keeturum saandet - ceremony performed as aresult of infidelity of wife where her parent pays a bull as fine.
Kalenjin clan clusters
The kalenjins Clans
There are 165 clans{oratinwek} and 45 sub-clans {ortanyisiek}.
The 165 clans are grouped into four Bororiosek namely:-
- Ngetunyo,
- kebeni,
- kipgaigei and
- kasanek.
Each clan has totem inform of animal which may be shared by several clans.when a typical Kalenjin is asking 4 your clan he normally asks;-
- ii antanya?
- Antanya is the clan of father,
- inue ano?-Referring to clan where mother was born from.
- Ibo boriet ainon? -Bororiet ano?
- Ibo ibin?- which age set?
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