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En-kai
En-kai AfricaLiterally, ‘sky’. The rain god of the Maasai in East Africa. En-kai, a remote deity, is Parsai, ‘the one who is worshipped’, and Emayian, ‘the one who blesses’. In their rituals the nomadic Maasai use grass.
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