A rock art site located in Tororo District, eastern Uganda has become a shrine. The shrine derives from
beliefs Bantu-speaking ethnic groups have, but belongs to a Western Nilotic-speaking people. A myth about
the emergence of the shrine attempts to rationalize its occupation by the present Nilotic-speaking people.
This paper considers how myth asserts a sense of identity in a place marked in ancient times as a site for
ritual and has now taken on an extended life.