Question

Reread "The Beginnings of the Maasai,” and then answer the question.

One purpose of "The Beginnings of the Maasai” is to explain the weather.

Which excerpt best justifies this conclusion?

The sky god is powerful, but can change from nurturing to vengeful depending on our behavior.
Sometimes Enkai is Enkai Narok, the Black God, happy with us and blanketing the sky with dark clouds that pour out rain to nourish the plains.
In these times, the sun grows incredibly hot until the earth dries up and becomes barren.
My father tells me that the eruption was so violent that it broke the earth away from the sky and flung Enkai and all of the cattle high up into the heavens.

Answer 1

"Sometimes Enkai is Enkai Narok, the Black God, happy with us and blanketing the sky with dark clouds that pour out rain to nourish the plains."

This sentence directly links the god's mood to specific weather (clouds and rain), showing the story explains why rain comes.