RESU, the founder and first Khullakpa,2 originally lived on
Khundei hill. From there he moved to what is now the site of
Phaibung Khunao. One day he went hunting, and wounded a
large deer. He followed the tracks to a pool of water near the
present site of the Khullakpa's house. He climbed a tree and
found millet, which he took. Next morning he went home, and
his wife offered him rice and zu, but h
e refused it. That night
he sought omens in a dream, and the dream told him to change
the site of his village. Resu's son and successor, Kadiva, had seven sons and seven
daughters. He was very proud of them, but one night he had a
dream in which a " god " told him he was too proud of them, and
till the seventh generation such a thing will not come again. Mosem and his brother are the seventh generation, and it is
believed that one of them will fulfil the prophecy. Hence Mosem
is usually referred to as the seventh in descent, whereas he is
actually the eighth, and the ninth Khullakpa. Chingjaroi-a village of mixed Tangkhul and Angami (Memi) Naga
affinities in the Manipur State in Assam, lat. 250 25', long. 940 2o', alsoknown as Swemi. Phaibung, Jessami, Kharasom, Lai-i, Lozaphehomi, Luchai, Rezama, Somra, Ukhrul and Pungam are more or less adjacent villages.
