Chép

Chép, honoured as Mẹ Chép or Mother Chép, is the ancestral mother of the peopled world of the Ot Ndrong. One of the recorded episodes of the cycle is a genealogical recitation titled for the descendants of Mother Chép, chanting the branching lines of kin that issue from her, the house of Rung and its heroes among them. She belongs to the primordial layer of the epic, the source of human descent rather than an actor within the adventures; sources differ on the number of intervening generations between her and the heroic age.

Children

• Rung

Domains

• ancestry lineage
• origins primordial

Powers

• originates the human lineage

Epithets

• Mẹ Chép — Mother ChépOt Ndrong, 'Kể dòng con cháu mẹ Chép' (primary)

Relations

• child: RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996): the house of Rung among the descendants of Chép (secondary)

Sources

• Chép is the ancestral mother from whom the Ot Ndrong traces the descent of its human world, named in the genealogical episode 'the descendants of Mother Chép'.: Ot Ndrong episode 'Kể dòng con cháu mẹ Chép', in Ngô Đức Thịnh (ed.), Sử thi Mnông, NXB Khoa học Xã hội (primary); Đỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996) (secondary)