Performing the Landscape: Orature around Loktak Lake and the Love Story of Khamba Thoibi

The present paper explores the rich system of orature (Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 2007) revolving around Loktak Lake and Moirang. Orature indexed orality as a total performance linked to specific idea space time. It emphasizes that nature has complete in its own right. richness Moirang is immense. available stories Manipur like Saiyon or Kangleirol, including last episode Khamba Thoibi, according some scholars E. Mangoljao, A. Khongnang, etc. are believed have been incarnations Panthoibi Nongpok Ningthou. Today we find performative traditions Kangleirol varied forms, namely Sai, Parva, shall explore relations between landscape traditions, aesthetic mysticism