Thembang

Thembang is an ancient village with high historical and cultural significance situated in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The old name of Thembang is Yuchho-pema-chen which literally means a Lotus like village. Legend has it that it was settled in the early century which would approximately be before first century AD. It is considered an oldest village in the region with a large human settlement. It was once ruled by a very powerful king who is believed to have descended from the sky. They were known as Cha-cha-nyey. The remains of the materials belong to the king are still believed to be there. He used to collect tax from different regions including some parts of Bodo area, the present Darrang District namely Mishamari, Udalguri, Mazbat etc. It is believed that initially the village was settled in Sat-tsi which is on the bank of a small river, 10 km away from Thembang. Due to an epidemic almost ninety-nine percent of the villagers died, after which the remaining villagers moved to the present location, which is at the altitude 2300 above msl. It is believed that the water of Sat-tsi

In the same lineage once there became two sons to the king of Thembang called Nyila and Yonpu. They jointly used to rule the territory after their father died. Most of their day-to-day affairs were performed by their uncle including the collection of tax. Everything was going on well until somebody out of jealousy told the kings that their uncle was not properly depositing the tax collected from Darrang District of Assam to the king. Heeding to the false allegation of that person, they had killed their uncle with a poisoned arrow. The uncle while dying cursed the two brothers that even they would be killed by the people very soon like he was. The next year the king Nyila and his brother Yonpu went to Mazbat to collect tax where they were misunderstood and were killed by the Bodos. They did not know the language properly and were misunderstood, actually they checked the collected items but the thread-rolls were not there, so they said that there is no "Hu-tu-tu" but the villagers couldn't understand it, with no option left the kings took out his sword and draw a long line on the grounds as they were trying to draw thread but the villagers mis-understood it as black magic. All the villagers gathered there and killed both the brother at night.

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