Unspoken Tenth Daughter

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

• First Man and Founding Father
• 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 Clan

Sources

• Leakey, L.S.B., 'The Southern Kikuyu before 1903' (1977)
• Kenyatta, J., 'Facing Mount Kenya' (1938), on the 'nine full' clans