Historical Period20c CE
Pre-historic Phom; Christianization 20th c.
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Deities
Buki — Phom creator-god
Buki — supreme deity of the Phom of Longleng
Buki — supreme deity of the Phom of Longleng
This entry honours the self-representation of Phom tradition. India's sacred landscape includes hundreds of traditions beyond the Brahminical-Vedic canon. Each has its own cosmology, priesthood, ritual calendar, and relationship with the sacred landscape. Each deserves first-person recognition.
The Phom (~50,000) of Longleng district, Nagaland — a smaller Naga tribe — worship Buki as the supreme creator. Their folk-tradition emphasizes Monyü (a harvest festival in April) and Moha (seed-festival). The Phom language, like other Tibeto-Burman Naga languages, has no traditional written form; cosmology is oral.
Oral Phom invocations
Drawn from scholarly ethnographies of Indian tribal and regional religions (Roy, Vidyarthi, Sinha, Fuchs, Sarkar, Sontheimer, Kinsley), colonial-era gazetteers, and contemporary community documentation.
