Bing
Mnong · mortal · Mnong traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Bing is one of the principal women of the Ot Ndrong, a beauty whose hand the young heroes strive to win. She belongs to the recurring theme of the maiden-quest, in which Lêng and his kin undertake long journeys, contests and negotiations for a bride, imagery the epic gilds with figures of the silver flower and the bronze flower. She is remembered alongside the heroine Jông as one of the paired beauties of the cycle.
Domains
- beauty desire
Powers
- enchants suitors with her beauty
Relations
- lover: LêngĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Văn học dân gian Ê Đê – Mnông: Lêng's courtship of Bing (secondary)
- companion: JôngĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996): the paired heroines Bing and Jông (secondary)
Sources
- Bing is a principal heroine of the Ot Ndrong, a celebrated beauty courted by the hero Lêng.: Đỗ Hồng Kỳ, Văn học dân gian Ê Đê – Mnông (NXB Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội) (secondary); Ngô Đức Thịnh (ed.), Sử thi Mnông (Ot Ndrong) (primary)