Naga folktale, songs and poems.
C hang Naga Folktales. 1. Momola Flood. Like every other community has a story to hold on, the ancestors of our Chang Naga Tribe also beliefs on one significant incident which according to them had caused a flood. The flood is known as 'MOMOLA FLOOD'. The Changsang history holds to this flood dispensation that once a mother named Sungmo took her daughter Thontimola for fishing with a winnower like fishing net made of cane called JESOK. While going through fishing in the river, the mother couldn't get much fish. So with a want to catch enough fish, she cried saying "Come to my JESOK(net) the biggest of fishes, I will give my daughter Momola to you." After saying that she then laid down her net and started trying to fish again. On this attempt, she got many fishes. However, as she was not willing to leave her only daughter but also being mindful of what she had said earlier started their journey back home. So the river began to raise calling out the name of he...