Unspoken Tenth Daughter
Kikuyu · demigod · the founding generation · Recorded classification
Classed as demigod: the 'tenth' founding daughter of the progenitor pair, whose existence explains the idiom 'the full nine'. Some traditions say she bore children outside marriage or that her line founded another people. vitalStatus='dead' as founding ancestor.
Parentage
- parent: First Man and Founding Father
- parent: First Woman and Mother-Moulder
Domains
- the hidden ancestress
Powers
- is left unnamed when the daughters are counted, to avert ill omen
Relations
- sibling: Eldest Daughter, Mother of the Anjirũ ClanFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (First Man and Founding Father & First Woman and Mother-Moulder) per the figures' cited genealogy.
Sources
- The Kikuyu count 'the full nine' (kenda mũiyũru) daughters yet tradition holds there was a tenth, often named Wamũyũ or Warigia, deliberately left uncounted to avoid ill omen.: Leakey, L.S.B., 'The Southern Kikuyu before 1903' (1977) (secondary); Kenyatta, J., 'Facing Mount Kenya' (1938), on the 'nine full' clans (secondary)