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About Sacred Hills
Our school is named atier a nearby evergreen hill
which is highly regarded among the host community as such a sacred hill because of its historical
importance from time memorial.
The Kipsigis community has named it Tulwoop Psigiis – meaning a place of fertility to mankind denoting
its sacred position amongst them and across the
entire Kalenjin land. It is a magnificent evergreen
hillock within whose innocent serenity lays the
history of the Kalenjiin people since the seventeenth century.
This hill is also known by many names all of which
point to the important role it played in right of
passage ceremonies of boys to men in which the
community has placed great emphasis to this day.
It was given all these names to indicate its importance to the Kalenjiin community. The hill derived
its various names because this is where boys were
circumcised and blessed to “go out and give birth to
many offspring”.
It’s the hill where the first Maina age group was
circumcised around the 1750s according to oral
history.
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