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Mythologies of the Hojai Tribe

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Hojai  is a town and a  municipal board  in  Hojai district  in the Indian  state  of  Assam . [ 2 ]  It is located on the banks of the two tributaries of Brahmaputra, namely Kapili and Jamuna.  The term  Hojai  means Priest in the  Dimasa language  and is also one of the clans of the  Dimasa people , who populated the settlement during its initial formation.   Hojai was a part of the  Dimasa Kachari Kingdom  in medieval times. The Dimasa Kacharies living in Hojai is known as "Hojai-Kacharies  to others. "Hojai" is one of the clans (Sengphongs) of the Dimasa tribe, The city "Hojai" got its name from this clan. It was made a sub-division on 15 August 1983 under  Nagaon district . On 15 August 2015, it was declared a new district of the state along with 3 other new districts.  On 31 December 2022, the district were remerged with their previous district.  Nonetheless, on 25 August ...
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Mythologies of the Nyaw Tribe

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The  Lao Nyaw ,  Thai Nyaw  or  Tai Yo  (Thai/Isan:  ไทญ้อ ,  Thai pronunciation:   [ tʰāj   jɔ́ː ] ,  [ tʰɑj   ɲɔː ] ,  Khmer :  ឡាវញ៉ ) are an  ethnic group  of  Thailand ,  Cambodia  and  Laos , scattered throughout the provinces of  Isan  such as  Nong Khai ,  Sakon Nakhon ,  Nakhon Phanom , and parts of  Bolikhamxai  and  Khammouan  provinces of  Laos . They are also referred to as simply  Nyaw  or  Yaw , depending on either the Lao, Isan, and Nyaw pronunciation, which all pronounce the initial consonant as  [ ɲ ] , or the Thai pronunciation, which pronounces the initial consonant as  [ j ] . The Tai Nyaw believe that they are descendants of people originally from the northernmost part of Laos and Tonkin or immigrants during Tai migrations. Whatever the case may be, their dialect most closely resembles the Lao...
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Mythologies of the Maniq (NegritoTribe

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The term  Negrito  ( / n ɪ ˈ ɡ r iː t oʊ / ;  lit.   ' little  black person ' ) refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of  Southeast Asia  and the  Andaman Islands . Populations often described as Negrito include: the  Andamanese peoples  (including the  Great Andamanese , the  Onge , the  Jarawa , and the  Sentinelese ) of the Andaman Islands, the  Semang  peoples (among them, the  Batek people ) of  Peninsular Malaysia , the  Maniq people  of  Southern Thailand , as well as the  Aeta  of  Luzon , the  Ati  and  Tumandok  of  Panay , the  Mamanwa  of  Mindanao , and about 30 other officially recognized  ethnic groups in the Philippines .  The word  Negrito,  the Spanish  diminutive  of  negro , is used to mean "little black person." This usage was coined by 16th-century S...
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