page_title: Mru people
section_title: Cosmology
hierarchical_section_title: Mru people / Cosmology
caption_attribution_description: A traditional Chin village in Chin State, Myanmar.
context_page_description: The Mru, also known as the Mro, Murong, Taung Mro, Mrung, and Mrucha, refer to the tribes who live in the border regions between Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India. The Mru are a sub-group of the Chin people, a few of whom live in western Myanmar. They are also found in the northern Rakhine State. In Bangladesh, they reside in the Chittagong Hills in southeast Bangladesh, primarily in Bandarban District and Rangamati Hill District. In India, they reside in West Bengal.
  The Mru people are divided into five distinct linguistic and cultural sub-groups: the Anok, Tshüngma, Dömrong, Dopteng, and Rümma.
context_section_description: The Mru people hold a number of traditional beliefs regarding cosmology.
  Among the Mru, the sun is associated with femininity and the moon is associated with masculinity.
  Mru folklore holds that the earth is carried upon the shoulders of a Nāga; earthquakes are brought about my the Naga's tremors testing whether humans remain on the earth. Other traditional beliefs hold that rainbows are bridges by which Nats descend upon the earth and eclipses are caused by the divine imprisonment of the sun and moon.
caption: A traditional Mru village in Chin State, Myanmar.
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