The seven day week was invented by Sumerians and adopted by all succeeding cultures on the eurasian landmass (not sure what went on other continents). The number seven arises from the days it takes to move from one phase of the moon to the other. Africans picked this up from these other cultures, principally from Muslim Arabs for the Swahili version and English mongols. Crafty colonial Christian missionaries bent on rewriting African cultures conjured up another version for native tongues.
Here is a table showing order and names for days in Kales and the two official languages. the table shows order of a day relative to others and name of the day.
nambait//kale/orodha // Kiswahili // order // English name and god after whom the day is dedicated
agenge//kotaai//kwanza // jumamosi // first // Sunday (god personifying the sun giver of life)
oeng//koaeng’//pili // jumapili // second // Monday (god personifying the moon associated with nature)
somok//kosomok//tatu // jumatatu // third // Ttuesday (Tiu saxon god of war)
ang’wan//koang;wan//nne // jumanne // fourth // Wednesday (woden most senior of saxon gods)
mut//komuut//tano // jumatano // fifth // Thursday (Thor saxon god of thunder son of Woden)
lo//kolo//sita // alhamisi (arabic) // sixth // Friday (Freya saxon goddes of beauty wife of Woden)
tisap//kotisap//saba // ijumaa (arabic) // seventh // Saturday (Saturn Roman god of time = greek titan kronos)
the general Kalenjin (representing Kenyan negroes) list the first day as the English Monday. This may be the case among all natives because there is correspondence with the Kikuyu naming of days as shown below.
mbere//Wambere- Monday
keeri//Wakeeri- Tuesday
ithatu//Wagatatu- Wednesday
inya//Wakana- Thursday
ithano//Gatano- Friday
ithanthatu//Juuma-:Sato (hii sijui walitoa wapi)
mugwanja//Kiumia-- 7th day or Sunday
there is a curious thing about the Kikuyu who use numbers up to the fifth. But on the seventh day (English Saturday) where crafty missionaries eager to brainwash told them the seventh day which though corresponding to the semite sabat will be called jumaa which is akin to Swahili for seventh day.
Now what should be the seventh day, unlike the Kale, the Kiuks do not say wamugwanja but use wakiumia that I was told means day of the church. This is straight up crafty missionary programming meant to avoid natives getting harassed by the SDA sect. Also not another confusion arises from the lack of native term for week whereupon the crafty missionaries told the natives to use the word “kiumia” which loosely translates to ‘church”. The Swahili word for week is sg juma pl majuma.
the Swahili calendar borrows heavily from arabs adopted the days from cousin jews whose day of worship is the seventh or sabat (what English call Saturday). but upon conversion to islam arabs/swahilis decided to make Friday their seventh day = ijumaa and is their day of worship. Subsequently for the Swahili day one is jumamosi (English Saturday)
our English colonizers hid from us their Germanic roots. Though they are Christians, they have never abandoned the veneration of their ethnic gods.
Two problems in Kenyan calendar are now obvious.
- Now you see that the vernacular and the two fvcking OFFICIAL LANGUAGES in Kenya do not fvcking agree on the order of the days. Literally translated, the Swahili first day of the week is Saturday and that in English is Sunday. Almost all Kenyan vernaculars know the first day to be Monday.
- English days of the week are dedicated to fvcking European gods. that is a fvcking BIG problem because it represents a cultural inferiority and is evidence of being still colonized by a heathen white people. During the constitutional review activities of the mid 2000s Kenyans protested use of the Indian religious chant “hare ambe”! as our national motto. So why should we let the English gods adorn our calendars?
Dorobo’s suggested SOLUTION>
Through a national referendum Kenyans can come up with a Kenyan name of days of the week according to a defined order. eg first day can be Enkiday - after maasai god. Second day Asisday - after nandi god, etc
