The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption:

origin of thunder

medium:

diaries

ethnicgroup:

location:

Merangkong

date:

19.7.1936

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	2.6.1936-11.7.1936
note:	translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes

acquirer:

person:

School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

text:

Thunder has the following origin. There are two brothers who live in the sky, Maintangsang and Aintangsang. The wind comes through a big hole in the sky and sometimes the brothers try to close it. Then they both run to the hole each carrying a big shield. When they collide with their shields the humans on earth hear the noise as thunder (118) but they never succeed in closing the hole.

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