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Beyond Silence: Exploring the Mysterious Kusule
Beyond Silence: Exploring the Mysterious Kusule
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Cultures
The Ritual World of the Newar Gubhaju
The Sacred Pillar of the Limbu House
Retkamaang – 8 Divine Spirits in Khambu Rai Tradition
Shamans of the Tamu Gurung People
Balance and Belief in Thami Shamanism
Magar Weddings: Rituals of Kinship and Social Balance
The Sunuwar Kõits and Their Ancestral Identity
Chongkha Sakenwa of the Bantawa Rai people
Chasok Tangnam: The Limbu Harvest Festival
Ghatu Tradition of the Gurung People – Part 2
The Bombo in Tamang Shamanism: An Overview
Kachhalā Pyākhan : Fusion of Animism and Tradition
Folktales
The Old Woman and the Creature
Khambu Folktale
Why the Rooster Crows
Tamang Folktale
The Boy the Mountains Remembered
Jirel Folktale
Posts
Stories That Keep Us
November 19, 2025
Among Himalayan communities, a narrative was a way of interpreting drought, illness, misfortune, or conflict. A single origin story might contain ecological wisdom and genealogical knowledge simultaneously.
Himalayan Ethics Beyond Moralism
November 17, 2025
In a world crowded with competing philosophies, with arguments about whose God is truer and whose path is correct, it seems reasonable to ask whether a tradition that speaks quietly of balance might also be heard.
Rethinking Endogamy in Indigenous Contexts
November 14, 2025
The indigenous peoples of the Himalayas have traditionally maintained a fiercely tribal social framework, and while these cultural norms were once widely accepted, they continue to persist even in the 21st century.
Animism is not Primitive
October 31, 2025
Among cultures rooted in Shamanism, people believe in embodied spirits inhabiting natural landscapes, guardian spirits that watch over human settlements, and invisible divine forces described in mythology.
A Tree for the Departed
October 17, 2025
In Khambu philosophical understanding, death is neither a final ending nor a reason for sorrow alone. It is a return, a transformation, a rejoining of the eternal cycle that binds all living beings.
History
Tracing the Roots of Gurung Ethnogenesis
Tamu Gurung history is a framework of information produced through processes of interpretation by consensus, and transmitted orally. It is a story that extends back in time over numerous generations and is periodized by folklore, legends, lineage, and..
Multi-Evidential Analysis of Magar History
Khambu Rai: Narratives and Perspectives
Ancient Kirata Cities
Can we locate Yalambar’s Burial Site?
