Kirat Mundhum

E237479

Kirat Mundhum is an indigenous animistic and shamanistic religious tradition of the Kirati people of the Himalayas, centered on nature worship, ancestral veneration, and oral scriptures.

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Label Occurrences
Kirat Mundhum canonical 4
Kirati Mundhum 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf animistic religion
indigenous religion
oral tradition
shamanistic religion
associatedEthnicGroup Limbu people
Rai peoples
surface form: Rai people

Sunuwar people
Yakkha people
coreBelief ancestral veneration
nature worship
cosmologyFeature ancestral land of the dead
multiple spirit realms
follows Mundhum scriptures
hasCharacteristic ancestor propitiation
animism
oral transmission of myths and rituals
ritual chanting of Mundhum texts
ritual sacrifices
seasonal festivals
shamanism
hasDeityType ancestral spirits
local tutelary deities
nature spirits
hasMoralCode respect for ancestors
respect for nature
hasRitual agricultural rituals
healing rituals
life-cycle rituals
protective rituals
practicedBy Kirati peoples
surface form: Kirati people
practicedIn Himalayas
practicedInCountry India
Nepal
practicedInRegion Darjeeling Himalayan region
surface form: Darjeeling Hills

Sikkim
eastern Nepal
ritualFocus ancestors
forests
mountains
rivers
sacredText Mundhum
sacredTextForm oral scripture
transmissionMethod oral recitation by ritual specialists
usesRitualSpecialist Nakchhong
Phedangma
Yeba
Yema
worldview humans, nature, and spirits are interconnected

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Subject: Kirat Mundhum
Description of subject: Kirat Mundhum is an indigenous animistic and shamanistic religious tradition of the Kirati people of the Himalayas, centered on nature worship, ancestral veneration, and oral scriptures.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nepali American religion Kirat Mundhum
Limbu people religion Kirat Mundhum
this entity surface form: Kirati Mundhum
Rai religion Kirat Mundhum
Rai traditionalReligion Kirat Mundhum
Limbu religion Kirat Mundhum