Significance of stomach contents ( Taatha) among the Agìkūyū
Undigested stomach contents were used as one of the items in purification ceremonies. The undigested stomach contents had this special virtue of purification. Why?
The Agìkūyū divided all plants into Mìtì mìhoro
Undigested stomach contents were used as one of the items in purification ceremonies. The undigested stomach contents had this special virtue of purification. Why?
The Agìkūyū divided all plants into Mìtì mìhoro
( peaceful plants) and Mìtì mìhiū, ( hot, angry plants.) Among the former were classes grasses and all plants which were non poisonous and had soft leaves and no thorns. Plants with hard leaves and plants that were poisonous or particularly bitter, which were the type used in
ceremonies of cursing and taking oaths.
Sheep of both sexes ate only Mìtì mìhoro, non thorny and non poisonous plants that is the good ones, so that their undigested stomach contents consisted entirely of a well mixed mass if good plant substances.
Sheep of both sexes ate only Mìtì mìhoro, non thorny and non poisonous plants that is the good ones, so that their undigested stomach contents consisted entirely of a well mixed mass if good plant substances.
In contrast, the undigested stomach contents of he- goats of adult female goats contained the remains of leaves of all manner of thorny or bitter plants that were classified as bad. Hence the stomach contents of such animals were never used at all, except occasionally in
making powder called thenge.
On the other hand, the stomach contents of young immature goats of either sex and especially of those that were so young that they had not yet been sent out to graze, but had only eaten sweet potato Vine and other things picked for them as fodder
On the other hand, the stomach contents of young immature goats of either sex and especially of those that were so young that they had not yet been sent out to graze, but had only eaten sweet potato Vine and other things picked for them as fodder
were considered to be passable in emergency for purification, for they too ate leaves of good rather than bad plants. The only other animal whose stomach contents were used in purification was the tree hyrax, which the Agìkūyū believed lived exclusively on good plants.
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