Ilet of the Volcano (English) in: Africa — Komililo Nandi
“About thirty miles east of Kisumu in Nandi country, there is a forest-clad extinct volcano named Tinderet. The Kamililo Nandi who inhabit its southern and western flanks tell a legend that high up on the mountain there is a cave in which Ilet, the spirit of the lightning, who descended there in the form of a man, took up his abode. After his descent it rained incessantly for many days, and the Oggiek or Wandorobbo hunters who lived in the forest were nearly all killed by the terrible downpour. Some of them, while searching for the cause of the rain, found Ilet in the cave and wounded him with their poisoned arrows. Thereupon he fled, and died in Arab Kibosone’s country; directly he was dead, the rain ceased.”
(a.i) Hobley (1903) — (a.ii) Secondary sources
– Hobley, C. W., “British East Africa: Anthropological Studies in Kavirondo and Nandi”, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 33 (1903), pp. 325-359, p. 359.
– Kelsen, Hans, Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943), p. 347. [This source is in the public domain; download here].
– Kelsen, Hans, “The Principle of Retribution in the Flood and Catastrophe Myths”, in: Dundes, Alan (ed.), The Flood Myth, (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1988), p. 137.
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