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history of origins of village; the frog clan |
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The Hungphoi men came originally from Phoi-hong, an abandoned site near the Assam Valley between Lapha and Joboka. The first men are said to have come out of the earth. |
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From Phoi-hong they migrated to Hungphoi. The two Wang-hu-him clans and the three Ben clans founded the village and the former functioned as Ang clan. Then they called an Ang from Mon and Mon sent an Ang. With him came the Luk-him clan. (110) The Luk-him is the frog clan and encourages the frog to eat sun and moon at eclipses. The Gim-ba, a man of Luk-him clan, builds the first field house. The next day all the villages build their field houses and that of the Ang. The Gimba does also the first sowing. He alone does the first reaping. After the harvest the Gimba goes to the fields of the Ang and without doing there anything comes back and beats the log-drum in the Ang's house. Then all the morung men beat their drums too. |
