Liuwtóh Phanit
EVENT MANAGER|| Kenn Muinao
MUSIC DIRECTOR|| Khayaimung Khamrang
PUBLICITY MANAGER|| Shemchon Awungshi
VOCALIST||
Thotyuingam Khamrang, Ngakmi Rainam, Yokmi Ngashangva, Tharya Rainam, Ramphungwon Awungshi, Chuiyarin Khamrang,Thotyar Jagoi , Jumichon A, Chonreiphi RN
Copyright : Ayaokhon Productions
LYRICS :Kenn Muinao
TUNE: Khayaimung Khamrang
AUDIO RECORDING,PROGRAMMING ,MIXING & MASTERING|| Richard
Recorded @ Richard's Studio, Ukhrul
1.Sampheirok khonghaira
Kapaiwonla wonlui haira..
Raluihaira -Ringkapha atamchi
pungkhon shaoda...laa sausa
Irem Yo Irem Yo Karing Kumruiyeh..
Karingna Kumruiyeh Liuwtòh Phanit sauseh!..
Wungnaobingli Varena
Chishin haiya pangshap
Hao-laa sada , Ameovali chikat
Phanit mayonna- Atam Atamli
Thuikahai I-Phalee Ngashān
Aja Ithot nala -mamalairar
Oh! Zimik katun thada
Thangkhava shiman haora na-ila
Phari-haisa I-mangla shongza
Oh! leishisa I-ngashan......
2.Saotheila ngareosai
Thingkarili tongda leisai
Haokhamuiwui- khangayam khihangra
Ringpha-usa tangnao-ramnao
malao la Phongyai la chongkhom- haorala
ngavaida-raserloh Liuwtòh Phanit sauseh!..
3.Tingteila khon leishi
sipu talląkhon leishimei
pheichak sada ringkapha khi hangra?
Thingneirąla -ngakhun luira
khangatuk -phitongthing ngareo -ngahanra
Sokhami khuiphungda
Shimthiuw Liuwthiuwasei
Liuwtoh Phanit (Phalee)/ Luira Phanit, or the seed-sowing festival is perhaps still the biggest traditional festival of the Tangkhuls which they celebrate every year with great pomp and joy. This is a festival celebrated in every Tangkhul village at the beginning of the year though with some modifications now (the date of celebration differs from village to village), precisely to herald the coming of a new year and to commemorate the beginning of sowing the first seed for the coming year. This is the main agricultural festival of the year and its celebration spread over a period of about eleven days in the olden days though the celebration do not extend that much long now a days.
THE festival, no doubt, is all about merry making and a showcase of traditional sports, yet nevertheless it is a time of invoking the super natural being to bless upon them with a prosperous new year so that they have good harvests at the end of the year. One very interesting feature of this week-long celebration is that on the first day of the festival the chief of the village comes at the village gathering with a handful of paddy and disperses the paddy on the ground symbolizing the declaration to the villagers that they can thenceforth begin the sowing of seeds.
One plausible conclusion we can make out of this is that there was no well-defined demarcation of spiritual and secular elements, both of which are well ingrained into the cultural life of the people, and the chief of the village was both the head of the village in modern political sense as well as the chief priest of the village. As such the role of the chief of the village is quite enormous. Even though we don't practice animism any more where any event was preceded by customary rituals such as animal sacrifice, the enactment of the same act is still done by the chief though in a different way.
The chief of the village then declares to the villagers that they can now start sowing the paddy and also decrees an order that every cattle which are kept in the open fields has to be brought home by every owner. That the time for the Luita festival of the village is quite propitious, with the rain pouring down right after the festival is over, is reverberated by the timeless folk blues of the yesteryears which goes
....Khui kachi yangnao shimthiuw liuthiuw seraroi,
Phalee yangana shimthiuw liuthiuw thang karing nirsheana...
( every chief of the village has invoked the God for sowing,
but when the chief of Phalee does the invocation for sowing it rained...)