Asis

Asis is the traditional religion of the Kalenjin, the Southern Nilotic peoples of the Kenyan Rift Valley, among them the Nandi, Kipsigis and Pokot. It is named for the sun, Asis, the sky-dwelling supreme god, all-powerful and the guarantor of right.

The second great power is Ilat, god of thunder and rain, who lives in deep pools and waterfalls and whose discarded garments are the rainbow. The Nandi split him into a good Ilet ne-mie, whose distant rumbling drives danger away, and a bad Ilet ne-ya, whose crash of near thunder tries to kill people.

The Kalenjin built no temples, since a building would have limited the god. Each section set aside a hilltop, the kaapkoros, where priests called Tisiik led worship, and each home had a prayer tree or altar east of the door.