The account of the origin of life that sets the Maasai culture is based on God , Man and Cattle . First, God creates man and Maasai once physically located on land granted cattle as form and meaning of life. So much is this absolute belief that the Maasai believe that all cattle belong to them and this fact have even come to have serious problems with the rest of the neighboring towns and justice in Kenya. In principle for Masai heaven and earth were one . When the moment of parting came , the god Ngai , its main deity , decided to move to heaven from where he sent cattle as prized gifts. However, this separation of heaven and earth also come all the curses of the land precisely is where the Masai contempt for agriculture and historical denial to work it is derived. The Masai are one of the best known tribes in Africa . Its natural territory is between southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, which still retain the nomadic spirit and living true to the traditions , despite the pressure of globalization and global development threatens to cause changes in its centuries-old culture . In his curious and almost quaint idiosyncrasies - for Westerners at least, is striking how men and women relate , plant under a strongly patriarchal context in which latter however enjoy certain licenses.