CEREMONIES

Iseetab koot – ceremony performed the day after the husband death to cleanse the house so that the family members could live in it again.
Kibuchege – Shaving of head hair upon death of a family member
Ngisiriisyet – removing some things from the widow and some things from the house.
Kiil karik – cleansing of the weapons of the deceased man.
Kepeel lol/kiil kwondo-to divorve
Iseetab murenik – special ceremony for blessing the soldiers before they went into planned battle.
Iringotit – cow that was delivered by the murderers to the family of the cictim, away of asking for forgiveness before full payment is effected.
Chepngabait – The animal given as a token payment for feeding a child while going through initiation
Chuteetab njor – ceremonial visit of the suitor to his future in laws when he is allowed to enter the eastern half of the house.
Eitaap muget – The ceremony carried out at the home of the bride to be during the series of rites, also the ceremony for promoting individual old men into saint hood.
Ewor ga – ceremony mentioned in connection with weddings.
Kambaget-mock fighting or rearhasal before the actual raid
Injogeet – mob action for executing an offender
Iseetab tuga – ceremony of sprinkling cattle, sheep and goats to ward off anthrax and rindepest.
Kaanyiinyet yon kabaris ilet – ceremony – ceremony for flocks and herds, people and houses or anything else which had been struck by lighting.
Karetoetab lagok – first ceremony of the initiation series which was observed by some clans
Katumetab lakwet – ceremony for an accident prove child or for a child who was often ill.
Kaatunisyetab tororyeet – ceremony performed late in life to show respect to a couple who had been married a long times performed to revive the values of marriage and the home, takes place between husband and his first wife.
Kayaet – ceremony when initiates washed at the river, it indicated the casting away of all un cleanliness and things of the past.
Kayaetab tarusyek – The teaching of initiates while in their period of seclusion, ceremony of casting away of uncleanliness, performed at a river.
Kailet – anointing ceremony for initiates as they came out of camp.
Keturum sandet – The practice performed for a husband so he could receive back his adulterous wife.
Keetyenji – tutorial ceremony for initiates held about one month after labetab euun
Keewiren sogot – The act of family or clan throwing a leaf toward a chronic offender of ethnic behavior to indicate that members of other clans could stone him to death and there would be no retaliation
Kuletab eitab muget – sacrifice of a sheep or goat to honour a highly respected person in a community, a ceremony to indicate the promotion of a man’s standing in his community to a saintly status.
Kuletab muget – fun ceremony attended only by males.
Suetab tuga – ceremony when the bride family viewed the animals to be given for the dowry.
Tisetab emet – sprinkling of the land for cleansing following a poor harvest of millet
Kole/kayanyinyet -ceremony perform to a person as a way of cleansing him from his past wrong doing.
Tyegetab segut – treading on grass ceremony performed after the birth of the first child.
Chepkururge -gift to married daughters by the brothers when both parents are deceased a form of consoling them due to demise of the parents as sons inherit other properties
Yatetab oret – opening of the way ceremony for initiates as they entered adulthood. One of the final ceremonies for them when they were annointed with fat on the fore and their feet were washed with holy solution.

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