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1. Per https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/kamba.html , the word “Kenya” is said to come from the Kikamba word, “Kiinyaa”, meaning “the Ostrich Country”. Even though there are ostrich in Kenya, that's not what the word Kenya means.a) In Egyptian, “Ki” does mean place, land and region, thus country (BB 490)
b) Ki also means Three Lights. This matches the three peaks of Mount Kenya. ( NG1 226).
c) There has been no sensible corroboration found that Ki or kii means mountain, unless Kii is actually Ki´i.
d) Despite white people saying they got their information from the locals in Kenya, there has been no sensible corroboration found that niiyaa means ostrich.
e) In Egyptian, Nya is man. (NG1 126)
2. According to the USA's CIA at https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kenya/ , although Kenya is named for Mount Kenya, the meaning of the name is unclear, but may derive from the Kikuyu, Embu and Kamba words "kirinyaga" "kirenyaa" and "kiinyaa" - all of which mean "God's resting place".
a) First of all, it makes no sense that the earlier people in the area named their land only after naming the mountain. Kenya is located in Aethiopia, Upper Mestrea, Punt and South Karua, Ta-Nuter, Ta-Neter and Punt to name a few earlier names that included the Great Lakes Region.
b) As to the supposed meaning of “God's Resting Place”:
Kenya is located in the area “where God Hapi Dwells.”
c) Ta-nuter is the Land of the Waters of Nu, The Creator God, one of whose names is Hapi. Thus this is the Land of the Gods, their birthplace, their resting place.
d) Punt is the point (pwnt) of origin.
e) The Egyptians marked the solstices as being in the horizon. The solstices, says Lepsius, “were always considered as in the horizon, and the vernal equinox as up in the sky.” There is reason to think this may be the result of astronomical observation made in the equatorial lands. When at the equator the poles of the heaven are both on the horizon, and the North Pole star would furnish there a fixed point of beginning which answers to the starting-point in the north; this would be retained after they had migrated into higher latitudes and the pole of the heaven had risen thirty degrees. The mythology of Egypt as shown in the Ritual [Periem-Hru], obviously originated in a land of lakes, the lake being and continuing to a late time to be the typical great water which dominated after they were aware of the existence of seas. The water, or rather mud of source is a lake of primordial matter placed in the north. Another hint may be derived from the fact that aru is the river in Egyptian, and the anterior form of the word, karu, is the lake or pond. Divinest foresight could have found no fitter cradle for the youthful race, no more quickening birth-place for the early mind of man, no mouthpiece more adapted, for utterance to the whole world. It was literally a cradle. Life was easy there from the first. (BB 20 – 21)
To the Kikuyu and Kamba, viewing Mount Kenya from a distance, the rocks and glaciers that form the peaks resembled the black and white plumage of a male ostrich, or its tail feathers, and gave the mountain its name: the Kikuyu knew the mountain as Kirinyaga (or Kere-Nyaga), variously translated as 'the area of the ostrich', the 'ostrich den', 'mountain of brightness', and 'it is glorious'. The Kamba knew it Kiinyaa (or Kinyaa) or Kima ja Kegnia, which Krapf translated as "mountain of whiteness." https://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/tribes/kamba/history2.htm
1. All of the following are nicknames because it is not possible for the spelling of these names to yield these various meaning: Ostrich Country, Mount Ostrich, Area of the Ostrich, Ostrich Den, Mountain of Brightness, Mountain of Whiteness, It is Glorious, Shining Mountain2. Kere-Nyaga - Kere means mountain but Nyaga does not mean Kenya
3. Kenia is an earlier spelling of Kenya and is said to be derived by shortening earlier names of the mountain such as "Kirinyaga" or "Kerenyaga"Per the Kenyan Embassy in Berlin, Germany - Kenya is named after Mount Kenya's earlier Kikuyu name of "Kirinyaga" or "Kerenyaga", meaning mountain of whiteness because of its snow-capped peak.
4. Kili nyaga means Mount Ostrich according to the Kikuyu per A. Ruffell Barlow in 1943 CE. Also, Ki´i Nyá means the same thing. https://www.jstor.org/stable/717379
5. Kinyaa is a compound Kamba word consisting of ki (has) and nyaa (ostrich). Has Ostrich or Ostrich Has makes no sense. https://twitter.com/MuokaJM/status/1265996647114379264What's Up With This Ostrich?
Even though there are ostriches in Kenya, the various names for Mount Kenya do not mean ostrich no more than if I called the Mimosa Tree the Flamingo and then somebody came along and said Mimosa means Flamingo.In Egypt, one of the symbols of MaShu is the Ostrich Feather, which is the sign both of Light and Shade, Black and White. There can be nothing older than Day and Dark. The Ostrich Feather was also an inner African sign of the Two Truths, thus of a black and white mountain. (NG1 146)
Additional Names Of Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya in Kenya, is the second highest mountain in Africa, after Kilimanjaro (Kala-Na-N'kara). Mount Kenya is one of the Mountains and Mountain Ranges called Mountains of the Moon, all of which are located in the vast garden of eden human birthplace in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa.As detailed above, some of the many names assigned to this second highest mountain are: Kirinyaga, Kirimara, Kirenyaa, Kere-Nyaga, Kili Nyaga, Kiinyaa (or Kinyaa), Ki´i Nyá, Kima ja Kegnia, Kenia, Kinyaa, Ken-ya, Kenya
Another source says Kenya is supposedly either a Maasai or Kikamba word meaning "mist." The Masai word is not given in this source or in “A Journey to the Summit of Mount Kenya, H. J. Mackinder”
The Kikuyu know it by two names: Kirimara and Kirinyaga.
1. Kirinyaga means “it is wonderful”.
a) Nyaga (it is wonderful) is used in reference to God, who they call Mwene Nyaga (He Himself is wonderful)
3. Three more Maasai names:
a) Donyo Ebor: (Donyo is mountain) (Ebor is white), thus “white mountain”
b) Wanderobo Donyo Egeri: (Wanderobo is wonderful), (Donyo is mountain), [Egeri is black]
c) Doenyo Ngeri: (Doenyo is mountain), [Ngeri is leopard]
a) The Chaga call it Mangi (chief, king) which is also the name of their human chief.
5. The Zanzibari call it Meru. There is also another high mountain called Mount Meru to the south of Kilimanjaro. A group of people called, the Meru, are a sub-section of the Kikuyu. These Meru live on Mount Kenya which is called Meru. The Kikuyu word eru with its various noun prefixes means white.
a) Either the mountain was named after the people or the people after the mountain
b) In Egyptian Meru means paradise, birthplace, place of new beginnings and renewal of waters by the mother Meri; sun Heru and places Aru and Karu
c) Meru is likely an earlier Mweru which means brown or white one, The female ostrich is brown and white.
https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.2307%252F1780451.zip&file=10.2307%252F1780716.pdf and https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_3i4RAQAAIAAJ/bub_gb_3i4RAQAAIAAJ_djvu.txt
Summary Of What Mount Kenya Most Likely Means
Most likely, when the white British Europeans used any means necessary to invade Africa, they created new boundaries and names to divide the people from their historical memory of many things. The area now known as Kenya did not exist as a separate named entity, but only as part of a larger identity. The British used the name of the mountain to name the newly bounded area. They took the local name of the mountain and screwed with it until they reached the word Kenia which they used to name the mountain and newly bounded area. They then changed Kenia to Kenya because they could not agree on how to pronounce Kenia.Earlier Names That Make Sense
1. In Kikuyu, Kere-Nyaga (Kirinyaga, Kara-Nyaga) meaning "God's resting place".a) Ki means land, region, place, country, area, mountain, it is
b) Ki also means Three Lights, thus three peaks
c) Nyaga is Nyaka, the Great Mother Goddess as the water-cow and thigh of the water, and the thigh of the cow, which was represented by the mount of the birthplace of waters, lakes, rivers and of celestial source. (NG2 165-6)
2. In Egyptian, Meru means paradise, birthplace, place of new beginnings and renewal of waters by the mother Meri; sun Heru and places Aru and Karu
The Ostrich Effect
1. Nyaga is Nyaka is Nkaka is the same as the NK in Njaro, thus the Black God on the White tipped mountain2. Kirimara (Keremara, Karamara) is Kiri (mountain), Mara (spotted)
3. Doenyo Ngeri: (Doenyo is mountain), [Ngeri is leopard]
4. Mweru means brown or white one, The female ostrich is brown and white while the male ostrich is black and white.
