Krishna and the Gond Prophet Lingo: The Mythological Connections Bibhu Dev Misra on September 04, 2018 The Gond tribes of Central India are the largest ethnic tribe of India, numbering over 14 million people, concentrated primarily in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and the adjoining states. The Gonds regard Lingo as their legendary hero, prophet, and teacher. He was the one who had organized them into clans, gave them their gods, rituals, ceremonies, dances, and music, and taught them farming, hunting, and fire making. His primary feat, however, was to release the Gonds from captivity in a cave, where they had been locked up by Mahadev . There are many events in the legend of Lingo which are very similar to the childhood exploits of Lord Krishna, when he was living in Vrindavan with the cowherds of Nanda’s farm. It is possible that the ancestors of some of the Gonds were the cowherds of Vrindavan , who had later migrated to their p...
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