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The five Limbu-Rai-Sunwar ancestors come to the hills from "Muktichhetra". (A Hayu ancestor is also mentioned in some te…
The five Limbu-Rai-Sunwar ancestors come to the hills from "Muktichhetra". (A Hayu ancestor is also mentioned in some tellings.) The Rai ancestor passes through a gate at "Takhrama-Khromalung" by killing the jureli bird that guards it. The Sunwar ancestor sacrifices his own younger brother to pass the gate. The Rai ref…
Ninamrengma mates with the wind and gives birth to Ninamkhungma. When Ninamkhungma grows up, the wind refuses to mate wi…
Ninamrengma mates with the wind and gives birth to Ninamkhungma. When Ninamkhungma grows up, the wind refuses to mate with her. She falls in love with the planet Sukra (Venus) [Rai name not mentioned], who is beautiful only from a distance. When he descends, she refuses him. He causes a drought and urinates in the holl…
History of the Bahing/Rumdali Rai in Deusimbu (Rangadip). The Rai defeat the Bono canibals ("ban jhankris") and found th…
History of the Bahing/Rumdali Rai in Deusimbu (Rangadip). The Rai defeat the Bono canibals ("ban jhankris") and found the village of Ramjatar, ancestral home of the Bahing/Rumdali Rai. A descendant of Rung, the clan-ancestor, settles in Deusimbu (Rangadip), driving out the Bahun founders. A Bahun widow, in committing s…
The orphan Koktisala, his elder sisters Jawa and Khluwa, and Koktisala's bride Tsampiyungma. (1) The sisters plot to kil…
The orphan Koktisala, his elder sisters Jawa and Khluwa, and Koktisala's bride Tsampiyungma. (1) The sisters plot to kill Koktisala. He tricks them into believing they have killed him and escapes. (2) Koktisala goes fishing. He repeatedly catches a rock, which he brings to his shelter. (3) He surprises the rock doing h…
The narrator is somewhat distracted. The roles appear to be reversed in s5 and s6; s8 is no doubt intended as a correcti…
The narrator is somewhat distracted. The roles appear to be reversed in s5 and s6; s8 is no doubt intended as a correction, since it goes without saying that it is the boy (Rhododendron) who proposes to the girl (Alder). She refuses him. The story usually ends with Alder throwing herself off a cliff, accounting for the…
The narrator is somewhat distracted. The roles appear to be reversed in s5 and s6; s8 is no doubt intended as a correcti…
The narrator is somewhat distracted. The roles appear to be reversed in s5 and s6; s8 is no doubt intended as a correction, since it goes without saying that it is the boy (Rhododendron) who proposes to the girl (Alder). She refuses him. The story usually ends with Alder throwing herself off a cliff, accounting for the…