GENEALOGY

                                                                              GENEALOGY
                                                                              MIUN – MIRAT

The descendants under the lineage CLAN of common ancestors in particular by the name of RAISING SHANG or the “ I - HAO Tangkhul Raising Kinsfolk” in the promise of God initiates to take note of our History into a written document handed down to us by word of mouth since time immemorial.
The world-renowned historians aptly stated, “Human history is the one subject where no one can begin with the beginning”.
However, man through centuries, have tried to find an answer to a number of questions covering generations after generation, that arises in his mind about his personal identity,
i.e. “ WHO AM I? “ This is a universal basic question and this basic question demands an answer.
The components of an answer to this particular question that cannot be easily ignored are:

a) His relationship with the universe inconsistent with the reality of existing life, under a supreme Creator.

b) His struggle for a healthy survival was fully aware of death as the first enemy of mankind.

c) His attitude towards life and death, the mystery of life before birth, and after death.

d) His equation with nationality, race, stock, kinsfolk, kinsman, shadowing under ancestral background, community, family - siblings, relatives, friends, neighbors, and human society at large.

The deeply akin descendants of RAISING SHANG at the present age with an intense desire and ardent longing in our resolute commitment after successive discourse presented by the advanced age kinsfolk added by narrative legendary tales of Tangkhul Naga tribe have suitably yielded to bring forward a recorded written history of the RAISING descendants.
Every inhabitant originally settled earlier than pre-historic events residing within the localities of customarily established Tribal villages in Ukhrul District Manipur known as Naga Hills in recent past that bears the title of his Clan by the name of Rephung, Raihing, Raiping, Raising, Shongzan …etc each of which is one by blood are sons and daughters of a single parentage.
There are a great number of our kinsfolk brothers and sisters scattered elsewhere around the North-Eastern region of India covering parts of Manipur, Nagaland, and Somrah Track (Myanmar), etc. running the same heredity genetic blood belonging to Raising Clan based on Justified counts of mythological and historical facts.
Scaling to begin from the time centuries-old the humble submission to the existence of invisible Omnipotent divine Creator since primitive stages of our forefathers entitled them to obedience and worship. The nature of their devotion to Supreme Being continues as far as down to this generation embodying the faith of their offspring of these days to embrace Christianity.
Wherefore, unto the all ages to come, blessed by God with knowledge of the distinction between right and wrong, goodness and evil, the creation of the heaven and earth and the creation of man and woman accounted in Genesis from Scripture is the basic fundamental source of human history.
Eventually, one generation goes and other generations come, among them of which our ancestors known by the name of Raising descendants are very much part of divine creation scattered on the face of this Planet. The people of Raising descendants belong to Mongoloid stock possessing a common outlook, tradition, custom, culture, and structure relating to Asian people.
Generally, even in the primitive stages of the pre-historic period, our forefathers were master of a full-grown mind and had the intellectual capacity to translocate their settlement toward greener pasture of the North-eastern region of India.
More importantly, the most interesting opinion about them is that they were capable of relating to their environment and condition of life from time to time and from place to place covering centuries multiplied by centuries, ages after ages the world around. This historical background had precisely enlightened upon every one of us, worthy enough to root out our identity in an open searching to “ WHO AM I"?

(c) Marshall Shongjan2015-preface to Raising Shang History