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The 'Maasai people' are an ethnic group of Kenya and Tanzania.
The supreme being and creator is Enkai (also called Engai) guardian over rain, fertility, the sun and love who gave cattle to the Maasai people. According to some sources Neiterkob "that which began the earth" may also be a reference to Enkai. Neiterkob is a minor deity, known as the mediator between God and man.
Olapa is the Goddess of the Moon, married to Enkai.

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★ Olapa

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★ Maasai Development Project.

★ Harold Scheub: ''A Dictionary of African Mythology, The Mythmaker as Storyteller'' Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, ISBN 0195124561

★ Description of Engai on God Finder

★ Naomi Kipury: ''Oral Literature of the Maasai'' (1983: East African Educational Publishers Ltd., PO Box 45314 Nairobi, Kenya

★ Introduction to Maasais in Kenya