{"id":10153,"date":"2023-02-03T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2023-02-03T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:46:26","slug":"still-on-the-ameru-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10153","title":{"rendered":"Still on the Ameru Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Meru, &#8220;M\u00fbgiro&#8221; means a curse . It&#8217;s a verbal wish that causes harm. It&#8217;s derived from a song using Kimeru language usually sang at the top of the lungs. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>spirit is believed to respond to human conflicts by cursing. Everybody in Meru can evoke a curse except the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. <a><\/a>&#8220;Mburat\u00fb\u00fb&#8221; a bachelor who has attained the maximum age of getting married but for the lack of women or fear, or both has not settled. . He&#8217;s considered unclean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. &#8220;Muteri&#8221;, A person who has a frequent tendency of going against community norms and policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a person to evoke a curse, one should abstain from horizontal engineering or for the lack of a better term, conjugal escapedes for 3 days, pre and post material day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s believed the right time to evoke a curse is before taking traditional alcohol &#8220;K\u00eethiri\/Kang&#8217;o\/Muthuri\/Kar\u00fbbu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without &#8220;K\u00eethiri&#8221; there can be no curse. Absolutely none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nj\u00fbri ncheke council of elders is also known to prompt some curse. If they&#8217;re angry with you, they&#8217;re capable of cursing your wife or your concubine&#8217;s wombs to sire a particular gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ugaciaraga m\u00eekenye ak\u00ee&#8221; alternatively, they can chat a boy child in your homestead will be like a snake droplets that has never be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;t\u00fb\u00eeji t\u00fbkaroneka m\u00fbci\u00ee gwaku turakara gwaku ja nthar\u00fb cia njoka itionagwa&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/culture-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/culture-1-2.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/culture-1-2-480x291.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 657px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Meru, &#8220;M\u00fbgiro&#8221; means a curse . It&#8217;s a verbal wish that causes harm. It&#8217;s derived from a song using Kimeru language usually sang at the top of the lungs. The spirit is believed to respond to human conflicts by cursing. Everybody in Meru can evoke a curse except the following: 1. &#8220;Mburat\u00fb\u00fb&#8221; a bachelor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/culture-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10156,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}