The Legend of the Kayan People

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A long time ago a wise female dragon lived in the sea. She had many friends in the sea, but longed to see what humans looked like, so one day she decided to leave the sea in search of humans.

When she left the sea she saw a frog in a stream and she asked the frog whether he knew where to find a human. The frog said he was not sure, but that everyday he saw a creature flying through the sky. The creature would fly to the forest in the morning and fly back to the mountain every night. The dragon asked the frog if he could show her where the creature went at night. The frog said he could and he led the dragon upstream towards the top of the mountain where they came upon a cave. The frog said: “I think this is where the creature lives”.

The dragon asked the frog to wait outside and she entered the cave. When she entered the cave the dragon turned into a human form. She looked around the cave and could see that someone had been living there as it was dirty and there was an unmade bad and cooking pot in it.

Karenni and Its Sub-Tribes

Someone asked me the represented name of Karenni and its sub-group,s their future constructed title of all ethnic groups and possible their common ethnic language. Following diagram is drawn according to the list from “Kayah” (ကယား), published by Burmese Socialist Program Party in 1967.

Those links at the end will provide you to understand about Karenni (Red Karen) and its various groups.

Ref: Commoditization of Culture and Tourism Development in an Ethnic Community: The Case Study of Long-Necked Kayan (Padaung) in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand by mm thinker

See these Posts also:

List of Myanmar Ethnic Groups

Kayah or Karenni

Literature on Kayan

Ma Khin Minn Zaw’s Kayan Article

Kayan (Padaung)

ဒီးကူပြဲေတာ္ေရာက္ ဧည့္သည္တစ္ေယာက္

(ဒါက Kantarawaddi Times မွာ ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္တဲ့ ေဆာင္းပါးပါ။ အေသးစိတ္ ခရီးသြားဝတၱဳပံုစံအေနနဲ႔ ေရးစရာေတြ ဆက္ေရးေပးပါဦးမယ္။ သင္ကာ)

ကရင္နီ႐ိုးရာ ဒီးကူပြဲသို႔ ေရာက္ျဖစ္လိမ့္မည္ဟု က်ေနာ္ ထင္မထားခဲ့။ သြားေတာ့ သြားခ်င္ေနမိခဲ့သည္။ တိုင္းရင္းသား ႐ိုးရာပြဲေတာ္မ်ားကို စိတ္ဝင္စားလာသည္မွာ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ၂ ႏွစ္ခန္႔က တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိဳးစုမ်ား၏ ေဒသႏၲတရ အသိပညာေရးရာ (Local Knowledge) ကို ေလ့လာမိကတည္းက ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယခု ဆိုက္ဆိုက္ျမိဳက္ျမိဳက္ ေရာက္ခဲ့သည္။ အစဥ္အလာမပ်က္ က်င္းပၾကမည့္ ေနရာမွာလည္း ျမန္မာျပည္မွ စစ္ေၾကာင့္ ေျပးလာရျပီး ဒုကၡသည္အျဖစ္ ေရာက္ရွိေနရသည့္ သူတစ္ပါးေျမေပၚမွာျဖစ္၍ ပိုျပီး စိတ္ဝင္စားဖို႔ ေကာင္းေနသည္။

ကရင္နီ လူမ်ိဳးစုမ်ားသည္လည္း ေရွးအဆက္ဆက္ ယံုၾကည္မွတ္သားခဲ့ၾကသည့္ သမိုင္းအတိုင္း ပြဲေတာ္မ်ားရွိၾကသည္။ ယင္းတို႔အနက္ အဲဒူ (ေခၚ) ေပၚမီ (ေခၚ) ဒီးကူပြဲေတာ္သည္လည္း တစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ျဖစ္သည္။

ကယန္းလူမ်ိဳးဆိုင္ရာ စာအုပ္စာတမ္းမ်ား

သုေတသနကြင္းဆင္းရင္း စုေဆာင္းျဖစ္ေသာ စာအုပ္စာတမ္းမ်ား

ျမန္မာဘာသာျဖင့္

ကူထိုးဘိုး

ခုႏွစ္မပါ၊ ကူထိုးဘိုး၊ ျပဳစုသူ မေဖာ္ျပထား။

ကေယာစာေပႏွင့္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေကာ္မတီ

၂၀၀၇ ကေယာလူမ်ိဳးစု၏ ေနာက္ခံရိုးရာသမိုင္း၊ ကေယာစာေပႏွင့္

ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေကာ္မတီ၊ ဒီေမာဆိုး။

ကယန္းအမ်ိဳးသမီးသမဂၢ

၂၀၀၈ ကယန္းေျမ၏ နတ္စိမ္းတို႔ကို ေရနစ္ျမဳပ္ေစျခင္း၊ ကယန္းအမ်ိဳးသမီးသမဂၢ၊

ခ်င္းမိုင္။

ခြန္ဧဒင္ ဖန္

၂၀၀၁ ကယန္း အမ်ိဳးသား ေဆြစဥ္မ်ိဳးဆက္ မွတ္တမ္း၀င္မ်ား စာေစာင္၊

ကယန္းလူမႈေရးအဖြဲ႔၊ မယ္ေဟာင္ေဆာင္။

ျမန္မာ့ဆိုရွယ္လစ္လမ္းစဥ္ပါတီ

၁၉၆၇ ကယား၊ စာေပဗိမာန္၊ ရန္ကုန္။

အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာျဖင့္

Francis Khoon Hai

2007 Kayan Bed Stories, KSDP: Mae Hong Son.

Kayan’s Women Union

2008 Drowning the Green Ghosts of Kayanland, Kayan Women’s Union: Chiang Mai.

Karenni Development Research Group

2006 Dammed by Burma’s Generals, KDRG: Mae Hong Son.

Naw Wah Paw

2005 The development of wearing rings as a Tradition in the Long Neck Karen Culture, B.A Research paper, Mahidol University International Collage, Nakhonpathom.

ကယန္းဘာသာျဖင့္

Phonlaohtan monnu

n.d. Kayanphao caucau htwanhtwan atahtondo ngaosau ngaoswi

အဘိဓာန္

Bisu Mattia Shwe

n.d. Kayan – English – Myanmar Dictionary, Taung Gyi.

က်ေနာ့္ထံတြင္ ယခင္ရွိျပီးစာအုပ္မ်ား

Khon Edwn Phan

2005 The Narrative, Beliefs and Customs of the Kayan People, Trans. Khon Francis, e.d. Bridget Craig Robinson, Kayan Subgroup Literacy and Culture Committee.

Khoo Thwe, Pascal

2002 From the Land of Green Ghost, Harper Collins: New York.

Rachasak Nilsiri

2008 Long Neck Kayan, National Geographic Magazine, p.35-57,

Shin Htway Yin (In Myanmar)

2005 Kayan (Padaung), Sarpay Bakehman: Yangon.

အစ္မခင္မင္းေဇာ္ရဲ့ ကယန္းအေၾကာင္းေဆာင္းပါး

က်ေနာ္ျပဳစုေရးသားေနတဲ့ က်မ္းကို ရည္ညႊန္းျပီး အစ္မခင္မင္းေဇာ္ တင္ေပးတဲ့ ပို႔စ္ပါ။ က်ေနာ့္အေနနဲ႔ အစ္မခင္မင္းေဇာ္ကို အထူးပဲ ေက်းဇူးတင္ရွိပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္အပါအ၀င္ သုေတသီအခ်ိဳ႕ဟာ ကယန္းေတြအေၾကာင္းေလ့လာရင္း ပိုမိုစိတ္၀င္စားျပီး ဒီ့ထက္ပိုလုပ္ခ်င္လာတာ ေတြ႔ရတာ ၀မ္းသာစရာပါပဲ။

အစ္မခင္မင္းေဇာ္ တင္ေပးတဲ့ ပို႔စ္ကို ဒီေနရာမွာ ဖတ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။