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Maybe he's the last one desperate enough to defy death for it? But it's possible that they just lied or are wrong.
by jhiska 9y ago
Maybe he's the last one desperate enough to defy death for it? But it's possible that they just lied or are wrong.
- vwcx 9y agoHe's the last in the lineage of those who do this within this specific group: "“For the Kulung, the ethnic group that lives in Saadi, for them to be able to go onto the cliff and touch the honeycomb and the honey, you have to be selected by this wrathful forest spirit called Rongkemi through a special dream. And Mauli Dhan was the last person in the village to have this dream. There’s a very specific narrative dream you have to have about being stuck in a spider’s web on the cliff, and you’re rescued by this large white monkey. So he told his father and the village elders about the dream, and they said, ‘You’re the one. You’re the honey harvester.’"