Mujingna Kheyongna, the First Human

Kirati · mortal · primordial · Recorded classification

In the Limbu creation cycle Mujingna Kheyongna is the first human being successfully brought to life after the creator's earlier attempts with precious metals failed. The Yakthung Limbu reckon their descent from her wind-conceived offspring. She is the Limbu counterpart to, but named and narrated distinctly from, the Rai first-ancestress Sumnima.

Parentage

parent: Porokmi Yamphami, the Fashioner of Humankind

Domains

first ancestry

Powers

to conceive offspring by the wind

Sources

Mujingna Kheyongna is the first living human of the Limbu Mundhum, made by the creator from bamboo-ash and bird droppings, whose wind-conceived children are the ancestors of the Yakthung Limbu.: Iman Singh Chemjong, History and Culture of the Kirat People, Parts I–II (Kathmandu: Kirat Yakthung Chumlung, 4th ed. 2003 [1967]) (secondary); Chaitanya Subba, The Culture and Religion of Limbus (Kathmandu: K.B. Subba, 1995) (secondary)

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