Lo-Ngam

HE IS IN THIS BATCH BECAUSE OF WHAT THIS PROGRAMME KEEPS FINDING. Seventeen traditions in, the recurring fault is that the registry holds the famous name and not the thing it is defined against: Arawn without Hafgan, Beowulf without Grendel, Kumarbi without Anu. A lane that ingested Drigum Tsenpo and left out the man who cut his cord would be committing the fault it was written to fix.

Domains

• regicide

Relations

• cut the sky rope of: Drigum Tsenpo

Sources

• Reference treatment of the Yarlung kings and the sky-rope: Nyatri Tsenpo was the first king of Tibet and the legendary progenitor of the Yarlung dynasty, said to have descended from the heavens on a rope of light and to have begun ruling the people of the valley around the second century BCE; legend states that the rulers of Tibet descended from heaven to earth on a cord and were pulled back up when their time came, and that Nyatri Tsenpo at his death ascended to heaven by this 'sky rope', as did his successors for the next six generations; Drigum Tsenpo, the eighth king of Tibet, was the first to lose his immortality when he angered his stable master Lo-Ngam, who cut the cord, leading to Drigum Tsenpo's death; he thus became the first Tibetan ruler to be buried on earth, and the legend marks the transition from mythological divine kings to historical rulers with physical burial sites.