Myth of Chali: As I heard It in Monggar
Chali is one of the seventeen gewogs of monggar district in
eastern Bhutan. Located on other side of
Mongar (in the east), Chali is a sources of many legendary stories. One such
story is a queen because of whom many subjects underwent hardships. The ruler
in question was debatable. Karma Galay
in his article Demise of Tongphu Gyalpo believed it was Tongphu Gyalpo, while Michael
Aris wrote it was Relpa Tobchen, King of Zhongar born out of fish while others
believed it was cruel Dzongpon Namedla. Whoever might be the ruler, ruler loved
his wife from Chali so much and he wanted to see her village from his room in
the Dzong. So he ordered the mountain in between to be leveled. People suffered
due to labour taxes. Even ministers were fed up. One day, a moringmo/ single
mother sang lullaby to put her child to sleep.
“Aow,
Aow.
Phuchen
Dhelpa Wata,
Michen
Dhelpa Drag.”
“Aow,
Aow
Instead
of leveling the towering mountain,
Better it
is to bring down a towering personality.”* Karma Galey
Ministers understood the hidden messages and killed him.
However, when I went to Mongar School, I was always dazzled by uniqueness of
their dialect. It consists of almost every dialects and languages you could
think of. I asked one of school mates about their linguistics when we were out
drinking on weekend. He had no idea of historical origin of linguistics but he
shared a tales that was told from generations to generations.
Guru Rinpoche accompanied by Khandro Yeshey Tshogyal and
others are distributing the languages, waters and other necessities. They gave
different languages to difference communities divided by geographical terrains.
Eg: Khengkha to Gungdue, Kurmed to Tsakaling, Sharchop to Drepong even in that
district. When they reached Chalip, it was found that all linguistic sacks were
exhausted. So, Guru shook all the sacks to glean out final grains of
linguistics. Thus, Chalip language consists of various words including Indian
languages.
It was also said that broad leaf in which they carried water
got wilted and water was spilt at Chali. So, there are water sources even on
the spurs. Chalips who are drunk can
narrate these legends for nights proudly for being blessed by Guru Himself.
Today, you would find Chalip speaking every language without
having to put efforts like others. In the school, chalip can gossip blatantly
and laughed at us without anybody understanding them. It was almost like code
words for other students.
If you are visiting Chali, be sure that none of languages you
know is useful. But then, you don’t have to worry because they speak many
languages quite fluently. Secondly, beware of their Ara (wine) because instead
of intoxicating you, it will make you puke at first. It is not because wine is
so strong. It is because wine is little better than water. You can only tell by
faint smell. There is nothing mythical about that tasteless wine because it is
a reality.
Do You know some information about Origin of Chhalip Dialet
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