Many football teams in Kenyan are named after their main sponsors except a handful, which includes the two major and most successful clubs in the country.
In the recent past, Gor Mahia has been the most dominant, winning four consecutive Kenya premier league titles.
Unknown to many, the club was named after the famous Luo Paramount Chief, Gor Mahia son of Ogada grandson to Ogallo.
It is believed that Gor used magical powers he inherited from his grandfather to rule over his people of the Kanyamwa sub-tribe of the larger Luo tribe.
Other people from Kanyamwa actually believed that Gor Mahia was not human but rather a spirit of his forefather Onyango Rabbala famed for rescuing his father Jok from enemies alone with four spears.
Gor Mahia was born in the late 18th century and raised up with his siblings like any normal child by his father Ogada Ogallo and mother Atoka Nyokado.
He was named Gor Obunga a name after his forefather Obunga Osewe being the only son of his mother's household as his father was polygamous.
When Gor was around the age of three his father slaughtered a bull and invited the children's grandfather to bless his children.
Every mother was to go with her children to the fireplace where Ogada sat with Ogallo and thereafter, Ogada would introduce her and her children to Ogallo and then Ogallo would give her a slice of meat to go and cook for the kids in her house.
But when it was Gor Obunga's turn, his grandfather instead he took ash from the fireplace, performed what was construed to be magic with it and then put it on the tray that Atoka went with to her hut under instructions to bury it in the middle of her hut.
The ash was said to be Gor's initial source of powers and he became so mighty that he even baffled his grandfather who had blessed him.
He allegedly did miraculous things that warranted him the name ‘Mahia’ depicting strange and lethal.
