Elders of the Kikuyu Tribe in Kenya plan to use an ancient remedy to protect a sacred hill -- a cursing ceremony.
Karima Hill is believed to be part of the path God takes to Mount Kenya. But a tea company has now planted the hill with non-native trees like eucalyptus and, to add insult to injury, a cell phone company has put a tower on it.
The Porini Trust, a Kenyan environmental organization, is helping to organize the cursing ceremony, The Independent (London) reported. The ceremony is scheduled for December.
This is real. It's no joke, said Kariuki Thuku, who works for the trust. Everyone is worried. Already some who have been employed by the tea factory, they cannot go there again.
Traditional religion has been turned into an environmental weapon in recent years. Two years ago, elders, to protect the Giitune Forest in the Meru region, cast a curse that loggers would be bitten by snakes.
Thuku said the elders speak the language of the community.
We are literally offending thousands of species when we destroy the ecosystem, he said.
Source: United Press International
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