Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Pudendum (The Legend of Ngangkhar)





When you travel through Trashi Yangtse and Trashigang High way above lies ruin of the Ngangkhar village and Ngangkhar is a village ruin located on the foot of present Jamkhar geog. While travelling through the high way when you reached at Tsergom, one can see big rock cliff and if one observe wisely one will grasp a scarce crack on a rock surface and the fissure look a lot like female pudendum (Female genital).

The tale surrounding the infamous cliff has several version of its own, none of which has been documented and record officially. Since it transmit a story, eyewitnesses are charmed by it.  The one of the famous story shared by the elder of jamkhar and is widely accepted among the geog, the pudendum is known by two names as Jamkhar Ama Baga (The Pudendum of the Lady of Jamkhar) or as Ngangkhar Ama Baga (The Pudendum of the Lady of Ngangkhar).

Native folks show great worship to the pudendum. It’s said the Lady of Ngangkhar cut her own pudendum and threw it at the rock surface.

The woman by quality of espousing a great status gentleman called Ngangkhar Khochey who ruled Jamkhar at that time was identified legendarily as Ngangkhar Khochey Ama. She was astonishingly fine-looking that whoever fixed his eyes on her would dearth to sleep with her.

The Lady of Ngangkhar had an atypical personality imperfection. She would do anything for need of wealth and just beyond her husband’s territory, in Dhungro, was a well-off man called Dhungro Khochey. He has sufficient wealth to bring the Lady of Ngangkhar into his arms. He gave luxurious stuffs to her and she slept with him. They then created their secret unlawful business in the cave of Maentsangloong. This business went on for years until someone saw them and informed Ngangkhar Khochey.

Ngangkhar Khochey by this time knew that his Spouse was dishonest and planned what to do with his wife and her lover. However, the Lady knew that her husband knows about her affair with Dhungro Khochey and took an instant resolution. She cut out her pudendum and threw it across the Drangmi chhu. Her genital went in the air across the river and landed on the rock surface on the other side of the river bank.

Since then the rock surface acquired the inscription of Nangkhar Ama’s pudendum.

 

Legends say that, the Lady did so to evade a forthcoming war between the two men and in that prompt of self-accusation and guiltiness, she decided to do away with the very root of the delinquent. The story of her impressiveness still intrigues people in the region. And the crack on the rock face continues to captivate the observer. The Lady of Ngangkhar is still recollected for her popularity.

 

People say that courageousness of hers is why she became an existing fable and found herself an ineradicable habitation in the native folklore.