YIMCHUNGERS (Cave of the)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An apparently fabulous emergence cave (no name mentioned) associated with the origin of the ancestors of the Yimchungers (note 1) is said to be situated at a place called Longa (note 2) somewhere in Burma (renamed Myanmar, a.k.a. SLORC-Desh). CULTURAL HISTORY: The Yimchungers … believe that their legends point towards Burma as their place of origin. According to one such legend they emerged from a cave in larger numbers. After numerous people had come out into this world the mouth of the cave was closed with a huge boulder lest too many people came out and overcrowded the land. One may only conjecture that such legends perhaps point toward a pass in the mountains which might have been crossed by the migrating Yimchungers as well as other northern Naga tribes hundreds of years ago. Yimchungers claim affinity with the neighbouring tribes-Ao and Sangtam. Their respective legends of migration also point towards Longa in Burma. In fact certain similarities in their dress and language sugget an intermingling at some stage (indiaprofile.com/lifestyle/yimchungers.htm accessed 2002.11.08).t an intermingling at some stage (indiaprofile.com/lifestyle/yimchungers.htm accessed 2002.11.08).