Mujingna Kheyongna, the First Human

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

• Porokmi Yamphami, the Fashioner of Humankind

Domains

• first ancestry

Powers

• to conceive offspring by the wind

Sources

• Iman Singh Chemjong, History and Culture of the Kirat People, Parts I–II (Kathmandu: Kirat Yakthung Chumlung, 4th ed. 2003 [1967])
• Chaitanya Subba, The Culture and Religion of Limbus (Kathmandu: K.B. Subba, 1995)