Historical PeriodEra
Pre-colonial antiquity
3000 BCEPre-colonial antiquityPresent
Sacred Facts · At a Glance
- Gender
- male
- Sacred Colours
- redturmeric-yellow
- Sacred Offerings
- rice beer · fowl · flowers · incense
Primary Scriptures
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Hemphu
Hemphu and Mukrang are the creator-dyad of the Karbi people of Assam. The annual Rongker festival (May–June) is the village-level renewal ritual; the Chojun (rain festival) invokes Hemphu-Mukrang to send rains for the rice crop.
Significance
Hemphu Mukrang — Karbi creator dyad
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
- Offerings
- rice beerfowlflowersincense
- Sacred colours
- redturmeric-yellow
🛕 Principal Temples
- Principal shrine of HemphuPre-colonial antiquity📍 Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam, IndiaHemphu Mukrang — Karbi creator dyad
🎊 Festivals
- Annual community festivalDate varies by tribe/region
Sources & provenance
🎓 2 Scholarly
- 🎓Scholarly sourceBookTribes and Castes of Assam
- 🎓Scholarly sourceBookAssam State Gazetteer (post-1947)
