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The Tai folk religion, Satsana Phi or Ban Phi is the ancient native ethnic religion of Tai people still practiced by various Tai groups. [3] [1] Tai folk religion was dominant among Tai people in Asia until the arrival of Buddhism. It is primarily based on worshipping deities called Phi, Khwan and Ancestors.
The Ahom Religion is the ethnic religion of the Ahom people. [4] The Ahom people came into Assam in 1228, led by a Tai prince Sukaphaa, and admixed with the local people.The people who came into Assam included two clans of priests, joined later by a third, who brought with them their own religion, rituals, practices and scriptures.
Me dam me phi (Ahom:𑜉𑜦𑜧 𑜓𑜪 𑜉𑜦𑜧 𑜇𑜣) is a socio-traditional festival celebrated by the Tai-Ahom and people of Assam. The festival has its roots in the ancestral worship of Confucianism in ancient China , which later developed into the Dam-phi ( Ancestor worship ) tradition of the Tai people . [ 6 ]
The Tai-Ahom people's traditional social structure, called Ban-Mong, revolved around agriculture and centered on irrigation methods. [28] The Ban or Ban Na is a unit composed of families that settled by the side of the rivers. While many Bans together forms a Mong which refers state.
The Tai are scattered through much of South China and Mainland Southeast Asia, with some (e.g. Tai Ahom, Tai Kassay, Tai Khamyang, Tai Khamti, Tai Phake, Tai Aiton) inhabiting parts of Northeast India. Tai peoples are both culturally and genetically very similar and therefore primarily identified through their language.
The modern Ahom people and their culture are a syncretism of the original Tai and their culture [20] and local Tibeto-Burman peoples and their cultures they absorbed in Assam. After the initial contact of the Tai-Ahoms with the local people of the region, the Tai speakers learnt the local language and culture.
The Institute of Tai Studies and Research (ITSAR) is a Tai-Ahom language teaching institute in Moran, Charaideo, Assam, India.It is an affiliate autonomous institute under Dibrugarh University and offers a one-year Tai-Ahom language diploma course and a three-month certificate course in spoken Tai-Ahom language affiliated to Dibrugarh University.
Ban-Phi - The ritual BAN-PHI is called as PHI-BAN by satsana-phi . Nam-Lao - They have the rule to offer Rice -Bearto God, Which called as Nam-Lao by Ahom, Shan and various. Ngi Ngao Kham - The Dragon or Ngi Ngao Kham is believed to the symbol of god by most of the Tai folk religions.