Mawenzi is the older, heavily eroded eastern summit of Kilimanjaro, personified in one of the best-known Chagga aetiological tales, recorded by Bruno Gutmann and later discussed by Hutchinson. Mawenzi's household fire kept dying, so he went again and again to his elder brother Kibo to beg live embers; exasperated, Kibo finally beat him so severely that his summit was smashed into the ragged pinnacles seen today, and Mawenzi is said to keep his ruined face hidden in cloud out of shame. The tale encodes the visual contrast between the smooth snow dome of Kibo and Mawenzi's shattered rock towers.