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		<title>Hair</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nordic woman has long blond hair which she uses as part of her winter attire. It falls over her shoulders as a blanket and keeps the neck warm. The neck carrying the crucial blood vessels and nerves to and from the brain is one of the vital areas that is able to send a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=1252&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gĩkuyũ Home &#8211; Mũciĩ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miikarire ya agikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mucii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murang'a homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyumba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Kiama Gathigira]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Gikuyu home, Muciĩ,  “is that which has a woman and a man, for an unmarried man has no home of his own and one gets a home when he marries or is married. A man when he marries is when he builds his new wife a house for no two married women share a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=1220&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stages of a Gikuyu Woman&#8217;s Life</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/stages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kang'ei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiheti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirigu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muiritu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyakinyua]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kaana &#8211; a girl baby. A baby boy is a gakenge. Karĩgũ &#8211; a young girl not yet circumcised.  (Kĩrĩgũ – big girl.) Mũiritu &#8211; A maiden after circumcision and before marriage. Mũhiki &#8211; A bride for the first year after marriage. If she goes beyond this one year without getting pregnant she begins to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=1147&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wamuyu: A Single Mom?</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/wamuyu-the-single-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aicakamuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu's last daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single mom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wamuyu aka Warigia aka Wanjugu was the Gikuyu daughter of Mumbi who according to legend did&#8217;t marry. This post speculates on the reasons she did not marry. According to the existing myths of the tribe, Gikuyu and Mumbi the first parents of the tribe bore nine plus one daughters and no sons. This was at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=1077&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/mukurwe-wa-nyagathanga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 11:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyumba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thingira]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga is the mythical garden of Eden of the Gikuyu tribe of central Kenya. It is also the central point of dispersal of the Gikuyu after arrival into the Mt. Kenya area. According to the myth, God, Ngai took the first Gikuyu man up to his abode on top of Mt. Kenya, Kiri-Nyaga, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=911&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Muringa</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The wall</media:title>
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		<title>Gitaruru {GĨTARŨRŨ}</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/gitaruru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Artifacts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditional Knowledge Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cow dung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elspheth Huxley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fr. C. Cagnolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gatiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gitaruru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il Popolo Kikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jiggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mud walls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[With a Prehistoric People]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GĨTARŨRŨ is a winnowing tray of the Gĩkũyũ tribe in central Kenya that was and still is an indispensable household utensil in many homes. It has multiple uses. It is mainly used for winnowing grain and the true test, if there was one, of a true Gĩkũyũ woman is the dexterity and grace of her body [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=715&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Popolo 027</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Cagnolo 073</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Popolo 017</media:title>
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		<title>Gĩkũyũ names for God</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/gikuyu-names-for-god/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/gikuyu-names-for-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gakaara Wanjau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Ancestral Spirits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jomo Kenyatta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kariuki wa Thuku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirinyaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murathi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murungu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mwene Nyaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ngai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ngoma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NGAI The name for God among the Gĩkũyũ is NGAI.  Ngai seems from the many descriptions of him to be a man who related to the first man, Gĩkũyũ as a friend, walking with him and speaking with him. But Gĩkũyũ mythology suggests that he then retreats into the mountains and no longer communicates directry to humanity today. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=683&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">mũkũyũ</media:title>
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		<title>Authenticity in Pictures</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/uthenticity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elspheth Huxley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house form]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Ricalton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Wanjeri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Strangers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a post &#8220;De-cluttering the Countryside&#8220;, ecologist and photographer Roger Butterfield presented this picture. A friend of his de-cluttered the picture with Photoshop to the one below. This led me to think of those nice children&#8217;s &#8220;Spot the Difference&#8221; puzzle pictures like the one below. and also the manipulation of pictures using Photoshop like the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=428&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old and New Contrasted</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/old-and-new/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/old-and-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A. R. Parterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elements of Tropical Hygiene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elspheth Huxley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father Cagnolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Trowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Blacklock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old and New]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Strangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Book of Civilization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/?p=384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LESSON X Sometimes you think, “When I am grow-up I will have a very big and beautiful house.” Perhaps you think you would like it to be very tall, or perhaps you think of the wonderful carved doors you would like or the large number of rooms you would have; but there are other very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=384&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gikuyu Cosmology</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/gikuyu-cosmology/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/gikuyu-cosmology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Artifacts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditional Knowledge Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Axis Mundi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borobudur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooking Pot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gicukia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Clans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu Cosmology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiondo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maya Calender Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mihiriga ya Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugumo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Stones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every society has a mental map or world view of how man (male and female) relates to the cosmos and the Gikuyu are no different. I doubt there exists a people anywhere on earth without such a map or worldview. Here I conceptualize the ideal Gikuyu map supporting at all levels the three basic needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=216&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gikuyu Clans</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/gikuyu-clans/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/gikuyu-clans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. N. Mugo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facing Mt. Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father Cagnolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred K Kago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gakaara Wanjau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu and Mumbi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jomo Kenyatta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenda Muiyuru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu clans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M. N. Kabetu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mihiriga ya Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine Full]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Kiama Gathigira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unbowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wangari Maathai]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Graphic Representation of the  &#8220;TEN&#8221; Clans of the Gikuyu According to the mythology of the Gikuyu, the first parents Gikuyu and Mumbi after arriving at Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga begat &#8220;nine&#8221; daughters who were the subsequently the mothers of the &#8220;nine&#8221; Kikuyu clans that bear their name. This is what Father Cagnolo writing in his book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=141&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The story of a man and his wife.</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/metaphor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditional Knowledge Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS posters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooking Pot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred K Kago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu storytelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu folktales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ng'ano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyungu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbolic language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ucuru]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The man and his wife Once upon a time a woman prepared very tasty porridge and as she didn’t love her husband much decided not to give him any. But because she feared being found out and subsequently beaten she thought of a way to deceive him.  She decided that she would tell him that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=87&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Discussion</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/dialogue/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/dialogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kakuzo Okakuro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lao Tzu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man's Abode - Thingira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Sontag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tao Te Ching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Book of Tea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 7 pm at the twilight of night, Kahuaini, and  Wanjohi, a man of about 52 years is visiting with his age-mate neighbor, Mugo. As he passes under the gate, thome, of Mugo’s homestead he feels the sharp night air and shrugs drawing his goat-skin githii closer to himself. He holds a walking stick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=67&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slide Show</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/images/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/images/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slide Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugumo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mwene Nyaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Origin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tree of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Tree]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gikuyu Architecture View more presentations from Mukuyu Mukuyu<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=64&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gikuyu Origins</title>
		<link>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/origins/</link>
		<comments>http://mukuyu.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/origins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mũkũyũ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuyu Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Axis Mundi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation Myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden of Eden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu and Mumbi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gikuyu Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Location]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugumo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murungu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mwene Nyaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ngai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Origin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tree of Knowledge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who are the Gikuyu? The Gikuyu is one of the &#8220;tribes&#8221; among the forty two tribes in Kenya, and were originally located in Central Kenya around and about the foot of Mt. Kenya, the snow capped second highest mountain in Africa at 17,040 ft above sea level. There were really no strict boundaries between different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukuyu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5433023&amp;post=20&amp;subd=mukuyu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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