Weldon Oriöp Kirui ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... THE SOMALI AS A HyBRID OF THE MAASAI AND DESERT ROBBERS FROM ARABIAN PENISULAR. The Somali or Kipchumaruuk(Ilchumau in Maasai) is a African tribe whose origin is shrouded in mystery. Yet, today I delve into their origin and why these people have been killing fellow Kenyans in Mandera with gusto and glee. According to the Maasai, the Ilchumaru came about through ethnic compound of Arabs and the Maasai.The story is that in their vortex of migration in Arabian peninsula, an Arab robber raped a maasai Eshankiki(girl) who later gave birth to a boy who became the eponymous founder of the Somali Nation whose descendants later adopted Islam.The Masai call the Somali Apuiyia meaning Uncles which the Kipsigis took it as Apule or Opule . The Somali also refer to the Maasai and the Kalenjins as Apuiyia meaning uncles. There is an array of Kalenjin and MAA words in Somali language .It is also believed that at some point the Somali assimilated some Kalenjin ‘Chemerinik” or torusiek. No wonder they hide their faces like Chemerinik(women initiates) with special clothes called Kurtut- or kurtait. In the own accounts, KAPIORIA clans people say that they were the Somalis who aboriginal home was Eritrea. KAPIORIA is a major clan in Kipsigis derived from the word KAP-ORIA or simply Kwa Oria…the home of Oria. Former Cabinet minister John Koech of Chebolungu is a member of this clan. Their elders tell me that they were Somalis who disappeared in Eritrea finally being assimilated by the Kipsigis alongside KIPCHEROMEEK clan. KIpcheromeek or Kiptieromo in Iltorobo(Ogiek) are believed to have been Somalis who were assimilated into Kalenjin during the community’s penegrination in Maghreb and Arabian peninsular. In SOMALI, Chiromo is a bigger clan resonating in Kipsigis/Ogieek as Kipcheromeek. Chiromo Campus is named after these people. When in Arabian peninsula which was proto-Kalenjin abode some 3000 years ago, the Arabs borrowed the name of Kalenjin deity Illat and became Allah –the God of Justice who kills criminals with lightening ILLET which is not ILLAT(GOD) or ILLAYE in SOMALI. Enlil , the God of the people of Palestine is derived from ILLAT GOD. The reason these Somalis are now killing people is may be because they were the hybrid of desert robbers and the humble Maasai. Now we know.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:43:45 +0000
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