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Kawilam Chhirpawn at Rulchawm(heritage site)
This spot is at Rulchawm village and is a few yards away from the pit where the Kawilam clan were said to have kept and fed a python. The clump of earth behind the tablet was said to be the footmarks, formed due to constant dancing in celebration of Chapchar Kut./festival.The celebration went on, oblivious of time, till a parakeet overflying dropped an ear of a paddy which made them realised that it was harvest time.This woke them up and dispersed.
Accompanied by two friends, came to this place for the first time on 19/08/2003 from Assam on the trail of our roots.Legend had it that it was the Biate clan who kept and fed "the great serpent". Lt.Col J.Shakespear( locally known asTarmita), the first Superintendent of Lushai Hills in his books "The Lushei Kuki Clans", published in 1912, also said so. We were naturally surprised and puzzled to learn that it was the Kawilams who kept the serpent. Who then are the
Kawilams ? Are they our lost kinsmen ? Revisited again on 25th April,2008 on way to Champhai, en route Rih Dil, and the above image was framed on this occasion.
Kawilam Chhirpawn at Rulchawm(heritage site)
This spot is at Rulchawm village and is a few yards away from the pit where the Kawilam clan were said to have kept and fed a python. The clump of earth behind the tablet was said to be the footmarks, formed due to constant dancing in celebration of Chapchar Kut./festival.The celebration went on, oblivious of time, till a parakeet overflying dropped an ear of a paddy which made them realised that it was harvest time.This woke them up and dispersed.
Accompanied by two friends, came to this place for the first time on 19/08/2003 from Assam on the trail of our roots.Legend had it that it was the Biate clan who kept and fed "the great serpent". Lt.Col J.Shakespear( locally known asTarmita), the first Superintendent of Lushai Hills in his books "The Lushei Kuki Clans", published in 1912, also said so. We were naturally surprised and puzzled to learn that it was the Kawilams who kept the serpent. Who then are the
Kawilams ? Are they our lost kinsmen ? Revisited again on 25th April,2008 on way to Champhai, en route Rih Dil, and the above image was framed on this occasion.