African spirit

Usage examples of ngai.

But Gikuyu, the first Kikuyu, knew that Ngai loved the earth and the seasons, and chose the digging-stick.

Then one day a Kikuyu chief gave a hyena a young goat to take as a gift to Ngai, who lived atop the holy mountain Kirinyaga.

In my hands, though, was the stick on which I had spitted the remaining meat, and I lifted this load into the air with both hands, presenting it to Ngai, Who dwells on Mount Tharaka.

She refrained, thank Ngai, from popping it into her mouth, and I took it back.

Further, in those distant days she was known by her Creator, Ngai, as the reem rather than as the rhinoceros.

She returned to Mount Tharaka and bearded Ngai in a garden of fragrant succulents.

Nevertheless, another objection took shape in her mind, and she hurried to intercept Ngai, who was busy climbing to a nest of woven twigs and colobus fur.

In his dwelling on the slope the reem found Ngai febrile and shrunken, no bigger than a dung beetle.

Mount Tharaka bereft of Ngai and saw the dust clouds billowing from the southern plains, they deduced that the reem was assisting the fugitive.

Surely, they implied, she had done beastly things to entice Ngai to bestow such lethal armament upon her.

She could hardly hope to rescue me, and, Ngai be praised, my own discomfort was minimal.

I supplicated Ngai, or whatever deity had tutelage over this ghostly dimension.

IN THE BEGINNING, Ngai lived alone atop the mountain called Kirinyaga.

To reward him for this Ngai not only taught him the secrets of the seed and the harvest, but gave him Kirinyaga, with its holy fig tree and rich lands.

Kirinyaga, and when he reached the summit, Ngai asked him what had become of the goat.