Tiăng
Mnong · mortal · Mnong traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tiăng is the principal hero of the Ot Ndrong, the great chanted epic cycle of the Mnong. A prosperous chief of the bon (village) belonging to the house of Rung, he presides over an ancestral world of feasts, exchange of gongs and jars, buffalo sacrifice and dealings with the yang (spirits). Whole episodes of the cycle bear his name, among them the tale in which he sells a carved wooden statue and the account of the giant leech that swallows his village. Sources treat him as a legendary human ancestor rather than a god, embodying the ideal of the wealthy and authoritative Mnong headman.
Parentage
- parent: RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996): Tiăng as son of Rung (secondary)
Domains
- chieftainship wealth
- ancestry lineage
Powers
- governs the village community
- amasses ritual treasure
Epithets
- Tiăng con Rung — Tiăng, son of RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996) (secondary)
Relations
- parent: RungĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (1996): Tiăng as son of Rung (secondary)
- sibling: LêngĐỗ Hồng Kỳ, Văn học dân gian Ê Đê – Mnông: Tiăng and Lêng as brother-heroes (secondary)
- sibling: YơngNgô Đức Thịnh (ed.), Sử thi Mnông (Ot Ndrong), cast of the hero-brothers of the house of Rung (secondary)
Sources
- Tiăng is the central hero and village chief around whom much of the Ot Ndrong epic cycle turns.: Ngô Đức Thịnh (ed.), Sử thi Mnông (Ot Ndrong), Viện Nghiên cứu Văn hóa / NXB Khoa học Xã hội, 2000s (primary); Đỗ Hồng Kỳ, Sử thi thần thoại Mnông (Hà Nội: NXB Khoa học Xã hội, 1996) (secondary)