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warriors to take more than their share of cattle. Incensed, the
Ilaikipiak warriors, guided by Koikoti, raided the Purko and the other sections around Naivasha, driving them completely from the region. A number of accounts suggest that the Ilaikipiak allied with the Uasin Gishu to exact revenge on the Purko.
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It is noted that when
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A number of factors determined the selection of a laibon's successor and it would seem that one of the most influential of these factors was the age-set whose time it was at the time of the laibon's death. In that, the sons belonging to the age-set whose time it was usually stood a greater chance of
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Lenana, who had hidden himself in the calf-shed, overheard the conversation. He rose early the next morning and went to his father's hut whereupon he said "Father, I have come". Mbatian was very old by this time and had only one good eye. He therefore did not see which of his sons was before him and
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The time of
Mbatian's death in 1890, was the time of the Il Talala, who had been initiated in 1882. This was the age-set of two of Mbatian's sons, Senteu and his rival half-brother Lenana. Of the two, Mbatian had indicated a preference for the former by having invited Senteu to join him in preparing
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and then destroyed them as a social unit. The elders do not attribute the victory of the Maasai warriors to superior military strength but rather to the prophetic-ritual leadership of the famous laibon
Mbatian who exploited his influence among several Purko-Kisongo sections to unite all the warriors
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Many accounts of the late 19th century capture the conflict between the Maasai and the
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The demoralized warriors and elders of the Purko then turned to
Mbatian for aid. They appealed to him using various methods and were eventually successful in drawing him into the conflict. Mbatian directed warriors from other, uninvolved sections of the Purko-Kisongo to join the Purko and the other
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during the warriorhood of the Il
Nyankusi age-set (c. 1860s - 1870s). These traditions imply a joint or at least a coordinated attack. More recently, there has been scholarly speculation that some Purko sought charms and medicines from the prophet of the Ilaikipiak - Koikoti ole Tunai - whose kraal
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Ilaikipiak fell out over the distribution of the captured cattle. Details vary but a consistent element of the narrative claims that Kuiyoni, the speaker of the Purko warriors, instructed his
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so he gave to Lenana the medicine man's insignia (the iron club and the medicine horn, the gourd, the stones and the bag) at the same time saying "Thou shalt be great amongst thy brothers and amongst all the people". Lenana took the insignia and went away.
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their raids and thus obtained cattle. Sendenyo eventually came to his brother Lenana in 1902 and begged that he be allowed to live with Lenana and peace was thus concluded between the two parties.
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