Indian Tribal Mythology
118 stories
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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
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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
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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
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The divine brother-sister myth -
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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
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Goddess Kaveri and Agastya - Goddess Teikirshy creates Toda land
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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
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The Iei tree -
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Ka Ngot and Ka Iam - Kailpodh weapon festival story
- Kaveri river origin
- Kodava ancestor legends
- Kungawrhi and the serpent
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The lost lover -
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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
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The Nilgiri mountain origin - Nohkalikai Falls tragedy
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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
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Pilchu Haram and Pilchu Budhi - The priest and the buffalo
- The punished hunter
- Puthari harvest festival story
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The rain-invoking ritual - River goddess blessing Kodagu
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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
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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
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U Biskurom - U Thlen serpent legend
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The village feast origin - The village festival origin
- The village gate guardian
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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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