Talk:Tugen

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The Tugen prayed to a God called Asis which means 'sun'. Most have converted to Christianity. They believe that together with other groups of the Kalenjin speakers they came to be in present day Kenya after migrating from the north a place called 'Misri' which historians have estimated to be modern day Egypt.

I haven't come across anything like that. Sutton in his The Kalenjin (1978) rather suggests that the Kalenjin are one of the oldest peoples of Kenya, if I understand him well. Misri is a known name for ancient Egypt, but where does the rest of the information come from? — mark ✎ 08:58, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I too am suspicious of the Egypt thing - reminds me of the claim that the Iraqw come from Iraq! - but the religion thing is confirmed by Sutton. - Mustafaa 18:06, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And by Rottland (1982) as well — he reconstructs proto-Kalenjin *asɪ:s, noting that '[d]ie Bezeichnung für 'Sonne' verweist zugleich auf ein göttliches Wesen' (1982:322). The word even seems to be proto-Southern Nilotic, cf. proto-Omotik-Datooga *asɛ:t 'sun' (but he doesn't mention a deity here). — mark ✎ 19:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)