The Maasai are an ethnic group found in Kenya and Tanzania whose mythology involves several beliefs. The Maasai believe in one God, called Enkai. They believed Enkai was once human and owned all the cattle in the world but when the sky and earth split Enkai sent the cows down from the sky along a bark rope. The Maasai people received all the cattle, but a jealous group of hunters did not receive any cattle they cut the bark from the sky creating a gap between the heavens and earth that stopped the flow of the cattle to the Maasai. This left the Maasai with the belief that cattle were a direct link to Enkai and that he intended that all cattle were for the Maasai. Because of this belief that the Maasai believe that Enkai intended all the cattle in the world were theirs they place themselves at the center of the universe as the chosen people of Enkai.