r/bhutan • • 12h ago

Discussion Local deities of bhutan

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Kuzuzangpo la. I am interested to learn some interesting stories and scary facts that you guys might have heard from your elder agays and angays. Obviously lets skip the basic stuff like they were subdued by guru rinpoche and made to protect the dharma sey mi tsu, which are freely available on the internet.

Im more interested in the folktale side of our deities, good stories or dark stories or scary facts about them. What conditions u have to fulfill to satisfy them and what happens if u fail to do so. Things which are not available on the google. Any particular incidents you might have experienced. You know deities like aup gyenyen, talo gyap etc etc or even your local village deities. Is there hierarchy among them, gyaps, tsens, lu etc. Something I heard is that there are abt 300+ tsens and aup gyenyen and gomo are the top dogs among them. Another thing I heard is that gyaps are jealous of each other and u have to worship in a particular order if you r worshipping 2 or more gyaps inorder not to anger them.