Fate in the religion of the Lepchas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16646074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Halfdan Siiger (John Lewis Partnership (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 150-157 |
| Publication date | 1967-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0582-3226 • E-ISSN: 2343-4937 |
| Publisher | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.30674/scripta.67014 |
| OpenAlex | W1563764471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The Lepchas are mountainous agriculturalists who live in the State of Sikkim in the Himalayas and in some adjacent Indian districts. To the Lepchas the supernatural world is divided into two groups, the rum, or the mainly benevolent supernatural beings, and the mung, or the malignant supernatural beings. Any evil occurrence is in the first instance ascribed to the malignant activities of the mung, but it may, under certain conditions, also be due to temporary on the part of some or other rum. If it is obvious that the evil occurrence is caused by a human being, this person is considered to be governed by some mung, or he may, which is much worse, be a mung in human disguise. At all events, any evil occurrence is experienced as the result of the evil will-power of some or other malignant supernatural being. Consequently, we cannot apply our technical term "Fate" to such occurrences, and Fate as an abstract concept cannot be used, when we speak of the Lepchas
Biology · Mung bean · Physics · Power (physics · State (computer science · Term (time · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 1990 - 2007 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |