- The Orkoiyot presided over religious functions such as offering sacrifices to God
- he advised the council of elders on matters pertaining to the day to day running of community
- affairs such as ownership of land.
- he advised and blessed the warriors before they went to war
- he arbitrated/ solved cases of disputes between councils of elders and members of different
clans
- he foretold what would happen in the future e.g. success in war, famine and calamities
- He was consulted by members of the community when disasters like drought and disease struck
- He had the ability to make rain by communicating with the spirits of the ancestors.
- He was the chief Medicine man
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