- Title
- View onto Chichinga village
- Description
- The Chamling Rai inhabitants of the region consider Chichinga village the place where Kakcilipu (the mythological hero of the Rai as he is called by the Dumi Rai) lived after having settles with his future wife. Villagers can point out his grave and his fields at the opposite slope seen in the backgound, which, however, have been destroyed by a landslide. The hill in the front is the place where, according to the mythological story, the cock arrived to invite Toma and Khema, Kakcilipu's sisters, to his marriage. Many animals had been sent before, but the sisters believed someone plays a trick on them as they thought their brother to be dead. Only the cock succeeded in luring them into the village.
- Keywords
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researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
group:Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu
ritual-type:hinduist
ritual-type:ancestral
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu>mythological-figure:Kakcilipu
- Location
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- Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
- Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
- Municipality: Halesi Tuwachung
- City: Salle [geonames.org]
- Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- Area: Chichinga village>place:Kakcilipus land
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
