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First published in Stalking the Wild Resnick, NESFA Press, 1991
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I will tell you why Ngai is the most cunning and powerful god of all.
Eons ago, when the Europeans were evil and their god decided to punish them, he caused it to rain for
forty days and forty nights and covered the earth with waterтАФand because of this, the Europeans think
that their god is more powerful than Ngai, who sits on His golden throne atop Kirinyaga, which men now
call Mount Kenya.
Certainly it is no small accomplishment to cover the earth with waterтАФbut when the Kikuyu heard the
story of Noah from the European missionaries, it did nothing to convince us that the god of the
Europeans is more powerful than Ngai.
Ngai knows that water is the source of all life, and so when He wishes to punish us, He does not cover
our lands with it. Instead He inhales deeply, and sucks the moisture from the air and the soil. Our rivers
dry up, our crops fail, and our cattle and goats die of thirst.
The god of the Europeans may have created the floodтАФbut it was Ngai who created the drought.
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