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Tales of the Gods
In the late 1960s a man looked at what was happening around him and did not like where it was going.
In the late 1960s a man named Talom Rukbo looked at what was happening around him and did not like where it was going.
Other faiths were arriving in Arunachal Pradesh and growing quickly. They had names. Books. Buildings. Organisations with officers and money.
His own tradition had none of those things, not because it was weak, but because it had never needed them.
He decided it needed them now.
The Tani tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, the Galo, the Adi, the Apatani, the Nishi, the Hill Miri, the Mishing and others, had practised the same tradition for generations. Animistic and shamanic. And at its centre was a very simple image.
Everybody watches the sun and the moon.
This tradition holds that they are watching back.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.