Lord of the Sworn Bond
Lepcha · deity · mythic / culture founding age · Recorded classification
Lepcha culture-hero deity (a 'rum' who founded a social institution), classed as deity per the brief's instruction to render culture-heroes as deity/demigod. He is the divine author of the ingzong sworn-brotherhood, a core Lepcha kinship-like bond. Note name overlap: in John Morris's variant 'Kumsiting' is instead the primordial first woman — this entry follows the Gorer tradition of Komsithing as the male oath-founding god.
Domains
- oaths and brotherhood
Powers
- institute the sworn-brotherhood (ingzong) bond
- send a demon to punish betrayers of the oath
Sources
- Komsithing is the Lepcha culture-founding god credited with inventing the ingzong (sworn-brotherhood) relationship and with enforcing it by sending a demon against oath-breakers.: Gorer, Geoffrey. 'Himalayan Village: An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim' (1938) (academic); Survey citing Gorer on the Lepcha ingzong institution, accessed June 2026 (secondary)