Yuma Sammang

Yuma Sammang, also called ‘Grandmother’, is revered by the Limbu, or Yakthung, of eastern Nepal. She is the female form in which the supreme power Tagera Ningwaphuma appears on earth, her male form being Theba Sammang, and the Limbu regard her as a maternal figure.

Her worship is carried by the oral Mundhum. In the 1770s the Limbu confederation Limbuwan fell to Gorkha, but the Limbu kept their culture and Mundhum alive.