Indian Tribal Mythology

• A

  The afterlife path →
• The ancestor house spirit →
• The ancestor path →
• The ancestor spirits →
• The ancestor stones →
• The ancestor who became a deity →
• The ancestor who became a guardian →
• The archer ancestor →

• B

  Bada Deo and the first beings →
• Bhil version of Eklavya →
• The bow as sacred symbol →
• The brave hunter →
• The brave woman defender →
• The buffalo sacrifice memory →

• C

  The cave legend →
• Chhurbura trickster tales →
• The clan buffalo story →
• The clan festival origin →
• The clever animal helper →
• The clever bride →
• The clever girl →
• Creation from water →
• Creation of the world →
• The cursed king →

• D

  The divine brother-sister myth →

• F

  The first dairy temple →
• The first drum →
• The first feast of merit →
• The first hunt →
• The first Santhal couple →
• The first Toda settlement →
• The first village →
• The flood story →
• The forbidden dairy →
• The forbidden forest →
• Forest mother goddess →

• G

  Goddess Kaveri and Agastya →
• Goddess Teikirshy creates Toda land →

• H

  The headhunting memory tale →
• The heavenly ladder →
• The hill deity →
• The hill spirit →
• The hornbill legend →
• How the dog came to live with man →
• The hunter and the forest deity →
• The hunter and the spirit →

• I

  The Iei tree →

• K

  Ka Ngot and Ka Iam →
• Kailpodh weapon festival story →
• Kaveri river origin →
• Kodava ancestor legends →
• Kungawrhi and the serpent →

• L

  The lost lover →

• M

  The magic drum →
• Marang Buru mountain spirit →
• The marriage of earth and sky →
• The migration from the ancestral cave →
• The mountain goddess →
• The mountain guardian →
• The mountain spirit →

• N

  The Nilgiri mountain origin →
• Nohkalikai Falls tragedy →

• O

  The oath before weapons →
• The origin of betel nut →
• The origin of death →
• The origin of farming →
• The origin of Gond clans →
• The origin of Holi traditions →
• The origin of music and dance →
• The origin of rice →
• Origin of the first Naga village →
• The origin of the Mizo people →
• Origin of the sacred buffalo →
• The orphan hero →

• P

  Pilchu Haram and Pilchu Budhi →
• The priest and the buffalo →
• The punished hunter →
• Puthari harvest festival story →

• R

  The rain-invoking ritual →
• River goddess blessing Kodagu →

• S

  The sacred forest →
• The sacred grove →
• The sacred grove spirits →
• The sacred log drum →
• Sacred milk rituals →
• The sacred stream →
• The serpent grove →
• The seven huts origin myth →
• The snake protector →
• The snake spirit →
• The spirit inside the tree →
• The spirit of the forest →
• The spirit of the pasture →
• Spirits of forest and field →
• The stag and the snail →
• The stag Lapalang →
• The stone that speaks →
• The storyteller origin →

• T

  The talking animals →
• The talking mithun →
• The talking parrot →
• Thakur Jiu creates the world →
• The tiger ancestor →
• The tiger and the hunter →
• The tiger and the monkeys →
• The tiger bride →
• The tiger-human kinship myth →
• The trickster jackal →

• U

  U Biskurom →
• U Thlen serpent legend →

• V

  The village feast origin →
• The village festival origin →
• The village gate guardian →

• W

  The warrior and the spirit bride →
• The warrior bride →
• The warrior clan origin →
• The warrior who became a spirit →
• The warrior's oath →

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