YAKTHUNG
The Limbu people of the eastern Himalaya, keepers of the Mundhum, archers of the hills, children of the grandmother goddess.
Choose where the journey begins.
Every chapter stands on its own: the history, the living faith, the script, and the game. Walk them in any order; they all lead back to the same hills.
History
The Mundhum's first voice, twenty nine Kirat kings, and the land the treaties called Limbuwan.
Enter the chapter → Chapter · Living cultureLiving culture
Yuma Sammang, the Phedangma's night chants, the paddy dance, the archer's pull, the shared tongba.
Enter the chapter → Chapter · Language & scriptLanguage & script
Yakthung pan and Sirijunga, the alphabet that was nearly lost twice, and refused to die.
Enter the chapter → Chapter · ClansClans
Every Yakthung carries a thar, a clan line with its own origin, villages and story. Find yours.
Enter the chapter → Chapter · The dreamThe dream
A vision for Nepal's best football club and academy, built for excellence and rooted in Yakthung culture.
Enter the chapter → Field notesStories
Short dispatches from Limbuwan and the diaspora: festivals, matches, and people. One at a time.
Read the notes → The keeperAbout
Why this site exists, who keeps it, and how to follow the journey as it unfolds.
Meet the site →The Sambas grow few, but the voice has not gone silent.
Today the Limbu live across eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling, and in a diaspora reaching Britain, Hong Kong, the Gulf and beyond. The reformer Mahaguru Falgunanda (1885 to 1949) is honoured as a national hero of Nepal.
Groups like the Kirat Yakthung Chumlung and the Yakthung Academy now record Mundhum chants, translate the epics, and teach the script to children, turning an oral inheritance into one the future can hold.
Sourced from Kirat & Limbu scholarship, oral tradition and the Mundhum
One story from the Yakthung world, every week.
Culture, history, language, and the game the hills love. Told from the source and sent straight to you, wherever in the world you are.