Before Christianity, the Kikuyu believed in Ngai, the god who lived on Mount Kenya, called Kirinyaga. Ngai was the creator, the provider, the judge. Sacrifices were made under sacred fig trees. Elders interceded between the community and the divine. Ancestors watched over the living. The mountain itself was holy, the place where Gikuyu met God and received land. Missionaries dismissed this as paganism, but the old beliefs never fully disappeared. Even today, many Kikuyu Christians retain elements of traditional spirituality. The mountain is still sacred. Ngai is still there. This trail explores what the Kikuyu believed before the church arrived.