Posted by Pam Adams on June 23, 2006 at 21:52:38 from 134.71.192.243 user PamAdams.
In Reply to: Kanchenjunga or Kangchenjunga posted by Adam Quinan on June 23, 2006 at 21:05:15:
According to an article in Time magazine's archives, the spelling in 1931 is Kanchenjunga.
Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayan Journals (1855), available at Project Gutenberg, spells it a couple of different ways as referenced below.
"I need hardly say that this invocation of the gods of the woods and
waters forms no part of Lama worship; but the Lepchas are but half
Boodhists; in their hearts they dread the demons of the grove, the
lake, the snowy mountain and the torrent, and the crafty Lama takes
advantage of this, modifies his practices to suit their requirements,
and is content with the formal recognition of the spiritual supremacy
of the church. This is most remarkably shown in their acknowledgment
of the day on which offerings had been made from time immemorial by
the pagan Lepchas to the genius of Kinchinjunga, by holding it as a
festival of the church throughout Sikkim.* [On that occasion an
invocation to the mountain is chanted by priests and people in
chorus. Like the Lama's address to the genius of Catsuperri lake, its
meaning, if it ever had any, is not now apparent. It runs thus:--
"Kanchin-jinga, Pemi Kadup
Gnetche Tangla, Dursha tember
Zu jinga Pemsum Serkiem
Dischze Kubra Kanchin tong."
Can't you picture the Swallows and Amazons dancing around the campfire and chanting?
pam