What is "gathukimundu"

Gathukimundu is a place in Mukurwe-ini District formally in Central Province but now in Nyeri County. The name is a concatenation of two kikuyu words gathuki-means the part of a tree that remains when it is cut mundu-means 'human being'.The two words together now mean a tree remain which resembled a human being.This came from the colonial days whereby the tree remain used to scare the colonialists and in fact in most occasions attacking it thinking it were maumau fighters.This has since then been the name of the village, catholic church and a primary school around that place.