Folktales of Bhutan
Ashi Tshomen is half human and half snake for she is a Lu princess who lives in a lake. She loves to play with her friends under the water, but also to watch the human beings who live on earth above her lake. When the human beings become selfish and careless, they pollute her lake and hurt those who live in the lake. Ashi Tshomen’s father, the King of the lake becomes angry and plans to punish the human beings but Ashi Tshomen helps to find a better solution. This children’s book while set in the contemporary world, tenderly evokes the traditional relationship between the Lu, or subterranean spirits who protect our water sources and the humans. A collection of twenty-two stories set in four different regions of Bhutan. Belief in the yeti is ubiquitous in the kingdoms of the Himalayas, where beliefs and attitudes related to it go beyond scientific judgment and analysis. The Bhutanese consider the yeti, or the migoi, to be an essential part of the backdrop of their existence. Believed to...
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