Kibo, the higher, snow-covered dome of Kilimanjaro, is more than a landmark in Chagga religion: it is a personified, sacred presence. Dundas records that the Chagga treated Kibo as the abode of the high god Ruwa, offering prayers while facing the peak and burying the dead oriented toward it. In the widely told legend recorded by the missionary-ethnographer Bruno Gutmann, Kibo and the neighbouring peak Mawenzi are brothers: Mawenzi, whose fire kept going out, came again and again to beg embers from Kibo, until Kibo lost patience and thrashed him, leaving Mawenzi with his shattered, jagged profile while Kibo remained smooth and serene.