Lêng
Mnong · mortal · Mnong traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Lêng is the young, valiant hero of the Ot Ndrong and a brother of the chief Tiăng in the house of Rung. Where Tiăng embodies settled wealth and authority, Lêng carries the martial and adventurous energy of the cycle: he leads raids, fights rivals, and undertakes long quests for beautiful maidens, imagery the epic renders as the pursuit of the silver flower and the bronze flower. In one celebrated episode he provokes a sacred stone belonging to the yang, drawing the spirit-world directly into human affairs. He is remembered as a legendary ancestor-hero rather than a deity.
Parentage
- parent: RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996) (secondary)
Domains
- heroism war
- courtship quest
Powers
- wages war and raids rivals
- courts and wins maidens
Epithets
- Lêng con Rung — Lêng, son of RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996) (secondary)
Relations
- parent: RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996) (secondary)
- sibling: TiăngĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Văn học dân gian Ê Đê – Mnông (secondary)
- sibling: YơngNgô Đức Thịnh (ed.), Sử thi Mnông (Ot Ndrong) (secondary)
- lover: BingĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Văn học dân gian Ê Đê – Mnông: Lêng's courtship of the heroine Bing (secondary)
Sources
- Lêng is a warrior hero and brother of Tiăng, protagonist of the martial and courtship episodes of the Ot Ndrong.: Ngô Đức Thịnh (ed.), Sử thi Mnông (Ot Ndrong), NXB Khoa học Xã hội (primary); Đỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996) (secondary)