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Myths and Beliefs of the Aka Koro Community of
Arunachal Pradesh

Baiju.D, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Eldho Joy E., Research Scholar

Abstract

In this paper, the authors describe a minority tribal community named Aka Koro or Koro in the East and West Kameng districts of the western end of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The National Geographic’s News talked about Koro on 6th October 2010. Koro language has some smaller lexical similarities with Miji and Hrusso. Here the article attempts to describe Aka Koro’s mythological concept about the Creation of the Universe. Koro belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family. Here the researchers describe some of their powerful beliefs and myths.

Keywords: Aka Koro, Mythology, Concepts, Universe, nyecu in Aka, kannagon nyechu (Genesis beginning of evolution), kannagong nyecho (Creation of universe both living and nonliving)

Introduction

Aka Koro is an indigenous minority tribe living in Pichang, Kajung, Chichang, Kichang, Kandeya, Sapung, Pochung, New Sapung in the East Kameng District and Palizi in the West Kameng District in the North Eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh. Most of these villages are situated in the distant and deep forest and mountain ridges with fresh air and snowy climate. These people live in their own huts. In earlier times most people were uneducated and were living with their own traditional way with agriculture, hunting, collecting forest products and fishing, etc. But now they have adopted other ways of living according to the situation. The Koro tribe has their own language, culture, customs, traditions and beliefs in their way of life. Unfortunately Koro’s native’s language is at the edge of extinction due to globalization and language shift to other languages. Their population is nearly 800 to 1200. They are proud of their unique language, culture, belief, and tradition. The study explains some of the mythological concepts of Aka Koro community and their beliefs in the creation of the world. Aka Koro people believe in the origin of the universe through mythical heroes in several stages.

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Baiju, D.
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
University of Kerala
Karyavattom Campus
Trivandrum 695581
Kerala
India
baijudkadakkal@gmil.com

Mr. Eldho Joy E
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Kerala
Karyavattom Campus
Trivandrum 695581
Kerala
India
eldhoj@gmail.com

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