* Meru, Kenya, a Eastern Province City in the Republic of Kenya, associated with:

It is the headquarters of the Meru County in what was formerly known as Eastern Province, and the sixth largest City in the country.

The City of Meru is linked to Nairobi by a paved road, whether from the south around the east side of Mount Kenya, via Embu, or from the northwest around the west and north side of Mount Kenya, via Nanyuki and Timau.

It is at Rutundu log cabins 20 Kilometre west of Meru City that Prince William proposed to the Duchess of Cambridge.

Meru City is the Commercial capital of Northern and Eastern Kenya.

Meru City serves as the centre for an important coffee producing area.

Meru City is an educational center for the northeast of Kenya.

In East Africa, amaranth leaf is known in chewa as bonongwe, and in Swahili as mchicha, as terere in Kikuyu, Meru and Embu ; and as telele in Kamba.

In antiquity, a cosmological view prevailed in India that held the Earth is a disc that consists of four continents grouped around the central mountain Meru like the petals of a flower.

Northeast Tanzania is mountainous and includes Mount Meru, an active volcano, Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano, and the Usambara and Pare mountain ranges.

This mandala is generally structured according to the model of the universe as taught in a Buddhist classic text the Abhidharma-kośa, with Mount Meru at the centre, surrounded by the continents, oceans and mountains, etc.

This is the only temple in India which has " Narasimha Meru " belonging to ancient period.

" Narasimha Meru " is a hill shaped chakra made specifically for Narasimha Swamy.

Mount Meru (), also called Sumeru i. e. the " Excellent Meru " and Mahameru i. e. " Great Meru ", is a sacred mountain in Jain cosmology, Hindu as well as Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.

The manuscript is describing the mythical origin of Java island, and the legend of moving some parts of mount Meru to Java.

The Venkatam hill is believed to be a part of the celestial Mount Meru brought to the earth from Vaikuntam by Garuda ( Lord's vehicle ), say the Puranas.

It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu mythology: within a moat and an outer wall long are three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next.

In the Puranas, The Venkatam Hill is believed to be a part of the Mount Meru, which was brought on to the earth from Vaikuntam by Garuda ( Lord's vehicle ).

The stupa is a representation of the Buddhist cosmos: its shape symbolizes Mount Meru while the umbrella mounted on the brickwork represents the world's axis.

Elsa's grave is located in the Meru National Park.

The Embu people live to the south-east of Mount Kenya, and believe that the mountain is God's home ( Meru word for God is Ngai or Mwene Njeru ).

In Jainism, Kailash is also known as Meru Parvat or Sumeru.

Phnom Bakheng is a symbolic representation of Mount Meru, home of the Hindu gods, a status emphasized by the temple ’ s location atop a steep hill.

Thirty-three is the number of gods who dwelt on Mount Meru.

The nine-folded umbrella is also a royal symbol, originating from Mount Meru in the Buddhist cosmology.

According to Sir William Jones, " Meros is said by the Greeks to have been a mountain in India, on which their Dionysos was born, and that Meru, though it generally means the north pole in Indian geography, is also a mountain near the city of Naishada or Nysa, called by the Greek geographers Dionysopolis, and universally celebrated in the Sanskrit poems ".

This was then a spirit forest, known to the Meru as the “ place of curse removers ”, less than two miles north east of his new administrative headquarters.

In Hinduism, Mount Kailash is identified with the mythical Mount Meru and regarded as the home of Shiva ; in Vajrayana Buddhism, Mount Kailash is recognized as the most sacred place where all the dragon currents converge and is regarded as the gateway to Shambhala.

However, while zuyuan strategists planned an escape route from Planet Zuyua, emperor Canilek sent his two sons on a quest to seek the Planet of Eternity, a sacred, mystical place where spiritual warriors go to attempt to awake the Kundalini serpent that lived in Mount Meru, and thus gain the spiritual transcendence, wisdom, inner peace and power that comes with being a Kundalini.

Meanwhile, Zacek and his older brother Nazul arrived at the Planet of Eternity, but as they reached the sacred serpent's chamber located in the depths of Mount Meru, a metnalian soldier who followed them by Asura's command assaulted the two princes ( Asura knew of the prophecy of the Kundalini that would defeat him ) and managed to grab Nazul and take him to his ship before he could go into the serpent's resting place.

Other African names for the giraffe include Ekorii ( Ateso ), Kanyiet ( Elgon ), Nduida ( Gikuyu ), Tiga ( Kalenjin and Luo ), Ndwiya ( Kamba ), Nudululu ( Kihehe ), Ntegha ( Kinyaturu ), Ondere ( Lugbara ), Etiika ( Luhya ), Kuri ( Ma ' di ), Oloodo-kirragata or Olchangito-oodo ( Maasai ), Lenywa ( Meru ), Hori ( Pare ), Lment ( Samburu ) and Twiga ( Swahili and others ) in the east ; and Tutwa ( Lozi ), Nthutlwa ( Shangaan ), Indlulamitsi ( Siswati ), Thutlwa ( Sotho ), Thuda ( Venda ) and Ndlulamithi ( Zulu ) in the south.

Vayu blew with full force for one full year, but Meru was shielded by Garuda with his wings ( he was flying high ).

Furthermore, Odinga, who had run an anti – Kikuyu campaign, had won the votes of most of the other Kenyan tribes and regions, with Kibaki's victory being attained only with the near exclusive support of the populous Kikuyu, Meru and Embu communities-who had turned up to vote for Kibaki in large numbers after feeling, in reaction to the Odinga campaign, and with the covert encouragement of the Kibaki campaign, increasingly besieged and threatened by the pro-Odinga tribes.

Around the glacier are the peaks of the Gangotri Group, including several peaks notable for extremely challenging climbing routes, such as Shivling, Thalay Sagar, Meru, and Bhagirathi III.

In 1972 the Meru Betiri Protected Forest ( 500 km² ) was appointed as a wildlife sanctuary, prioritized for protecting the habitat of the then endangered Javan Tiger.

On 8 June 2006, Australian couple Heather Swan and Glenn Singleman jumped from 21, 780 ft ( 6, 640 m ) of Meru Peak in India setting a world record for highest Wisbase jump.

Laws of Judgment omitted the " Rising of Mount Meru " scenario for Kindred of the East ( from World of Darkness: Time of Judgment ), on the grounds that its themes did not fit with those of Mind's Eye Theatre, as well as the entire Demon: The Fallen scenario from World of Darkness: Time of Judgment, as Demon was never adapted to Mind's Eye Theatre format.

The Bantu community with a great many similarities with the AbaGusii is the Meru ( Ameru ) from the windward slopes of Mount Kenya, although the Kuria ( AbaKuria ) share a great deal in common with the AbaGusii in language and culture as well, and a history of intermarriage has led to prohibition of marriage alliances for specific clans of the AbaGusii with some Kuria clans.

Then he went to Kitui High School in Kitui for the ordibary level and eventually to Meru School in Meru from where he graduated in the advanced level in 1973.

At the same time, the colonial administration had called for a simultaneous construction of a roadbed ten feet wide, to run from Embu through each of the Meru regions, through Horne's encampment, and extend thirty miles beyond into Tigania.

This site in Kaaga has grown to be Meru ’ s Education Centre, with a National School, A leading school for students with special needs, two provincial schools and two Primary schools.

He is an interested contender for the Meru Governor seat 2012.

* Abdul Rahim Dawood, current councilor for Commercial Ward, Meru Municipal Council.

The concept of planes of existence might be seen as deriving from shamanic and traditional mythological ideas of a vertical world-axis — for example a cosmic mountain, tree, or pole ( such as Yggdrasil or Mount Meru ) — or a philosophical conception of a Great Chain of Being, arranged metaphorically from God down to inanimate matter.

The Guinness World Record for a BASE jump starting elevation is held by Singleman himself and partner Heather Swan for a jump from 6604 meters ( 21, 667 ft ) from Meru Peak in northern India on 23 May 2006.