{"id":84682,"date":"2023-03-19T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/03\/19\/push-for-taita-skulls-caves-to-world-heritage-site-begins-kenya-news-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:44:26","slug":"push-for-taita-skulls-caves-to-world-heritage-site-begins-kenya-news-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/03\/19\/push-for-taita-skulls-caves-to-world-heritage-site-begins-kenya-news-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Push for Taita skulls caves to world heritage site begins \u2013 Kenya News Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rigorously tucked on a jutting rock shelf inside a cold darkish historic cave on the hilly Mwanda village of Wundanyi is a trove of macabre trophy; a whole lot of white-washed human skulls that eerily gleam within the spooky gloom of the cave.<\/p>\n
These skulls belong to revered leaders, heroes and different notable members of the group from centuries in the past whose selfless deeds of valor and sacrifices elevated them to be honored inside the group and past.<\/p>\n
At a time the world is getting quickly modernized, the preservation of human skulls as deified memorabilia may appear as if a ghoulish apply however to the native residents, the skulls type a key a part of the group\u2019s cultural id that strengthens traditions and reinforces attachment to the arcane methods of the ancestors.<\/p>\n
The Chair for Home Tourism Affiliation (DTA) Mr. Livingstone Mgenyi explains that Taita cranium caves have nice cultural significance for native communities owing to the deep historic and non secular hyperlinks the caves have. He provides that esoteric rites and different secret rituals carried out by chosen elders earlier than permitting outsiders\u2019 entry to the cranium caves solely provides to the mystifying affect clinging to those conventional websites.<\/p>\n