Kenya: Irkisaruni blessing women in Endana.
Posted on July 23, 2010 by Saidimu Ole ngais
Saidimu Ole Ngais
As a member of Irkisaruni age group, I would like to send my sincere apologies for not being able to attend our general women/wives blessing currently going on in Il-dikiri sub clan of the greater Laikipai Maasai of Kenya.
Although My wife and I are unfortunately not physically attending the ceremony, we have been following it from day one through preparation phases, and we have also sent our family‘s contribution in cash to Chalubo and Matayian (hosts) through Enkayion Ole Mayiani ( my mother)
This part of our culture is so nice and worth every support to ensure its survival. It is our obligation as Maa to ensure that we retain the best part of our culture.
Blessing our women is a cultural practice aimed to bond the age group together and ensure continuity of good life and cooperation between man and woman in regards to family and society protection.
It’s one of the Maasai ways to evoke divine intervention for continuety of our women’s fertility, peace in the family and harmony in society.
It is a moral dimension which is worth to retain for future generations.
I sincerely hope that some good Maasai takes time to digitally document the ceremony.
Please use your camera or sound recorder to record songs and prayers during the ceremony.
Godfrey Putunoi, you must have a camera with you. Please send pics to us the soonest you can. Naa tanapa taa nkamula olayioo lentito eminyi iyaki orporo linyi
This kind of ceremony comes once in a while.
In any case, as the Right hand of Irkisaruni, I spit now saliva on my chest and lick the chain of life around my neck and in the Maa spirit, pray that the almighty shall continue to be generous to us and give us brains powerful enough to read the future and interpret the Magilani‘s (God) divine signals sent to us through Holy Spirit-Oltau sinyati.
As a Maasai people, we believe in the holy spirit surrounding us and we believe in the God that lives in the blue. We belief that humanity carries with it, the Godly powers entitled to us and we are all images of God. We depend on each other and one can not be live a decent life without others. This is the reason our society always comes before the individual. On a positive light, and where culture and tradition practice is concerned, putting the society before the individual is debatably wise. But as enlightened people we refuse to let our culture take from individuals rights that are entitled to them by God, ( Magilani/Enkai)
It is due to this revelation that we stand with the rest of Kenyans and say YES, our destiny is in out hands and we have already been given the right to act as children of God because that is exactly what we are!
There are many things that we no longer have to wait for the almighty Magilani to do for us, reasons? Because he already told us to take control over certain things.
What remains now is to achieve positive results and thank the initial designer of the results of your endeavours, the Magilani himself, God our father!
Apart from the need to vote YES in the coming Constitution, another issues we should take the privilege to promote during this ceremony, is gender equality. The Constitution that we intend to bring into reality by voting YES on August 4th 2010, is a brilliant art of our best brains, the people of Kenya!
They suffered ever since Colonial time and through these suffering, they promoted the need for a humane Constitution. If you will be there, please tell our mothers once again how the Constitution draft is going to empower us. Let them know that by voting YES, they’ll be entitled to rights they never knew they had before.
Please let them not be cheated by the ney sayers. The ney sayers want to protect the status quo and stop us from accessing, utilising and owning the Kenyan bakery that bakes the Kenyan CAKE! It is time for us to own the right to a pee of the Kenyan CAKE..
VOTE YES on August 4th and make us come home with immediate effect! We know we have a lot to give back to our society. Let us pray that all our youngsters shall come back from cities, from far lands and participate in building our nation together.
This nation is calling you and me.. The land is being robbed daily while we ignore the reality. The rich are probably satisfied with the way things are now but you and me. As long as you are still languishing in poverty, decease and insecurity, it is self evident that the current Constitution has not been effective. It is certain that something must be changed. It is obvious that we must be self critical.
The angel we don’t know is the one to save us and not the devil we know that comes to with inflammables when we place that emergency call to put off fire in our grass thatched huts!
This is our time fellows! Our mothers are the majority voters in the villages, please enlighten them and honour them by respectfully telling them the truth. They have withhold both pride and intelligence of the highest order the reason you are able to read this material I have typed because otherwise you and I wouldn’t be a life today if our mothers were not smart enough.
Please, think about Sokoyian, Tiranka, remember Nalepisho, think about Nookishu, think about Norkila, Ng‘oto Maipei, remember tiger mothers and elephant intelligent Maa mothers who fight daily for you and I to grow as respected child and a citizen of this globe.
Remember their daily prayers, torika loiter oloorook, loomena oloodupa.. Tubula, mikitonyori enkomom, ima aras ekimojik anaa orpidilai, nai nchooki enkare pus olaji nabaiki yiook nagarishore kulie naai tatashaki yiook namuka naai nchooki mataa koon, mikingurie likai tung‘ani.
It is time to be ruled by our own Constitution and not by the inhuman Colonial one. The draft Constitution shall even all field for all God children to cooperate in self determination in respect and honour as Children of one mother and father.
Let us now bless our women not as lesser human beings to us but as equals and let us be generous to ourselves just as the almighty is generous to us and seek equality and respect our daughters, mothers and sisters just as we respect ourselves.
Now that we are getting the YES campaign through and that the reality of a new constitution is soon with us, the Maa people shall also be ready to embrace positive change and demand their Constitutionally provided rights.
It is my sincere hope that the formally informed part of our society, shall continue to enlighten the society to make wise and informed decisions.
At the end of the day, it‘s our destiny we are shaping and that responsibility, has already been entitled to us by the ALmighty Magilani!
Naishi O Kule.
Saidimu Ole Ngais
(Orkisaruniy le tatene loo Ildikiri le Laikipia) 
