Apokpa

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Apokpa (plural Apokpas)

  1. Any ancestral deity in Meitei folklore, mythology and religion.
  2. Any deified deceased or living ancestor, forefather or progenitor, in Meitei culture.
  3. A Meitei ethnic male given name.
  4. (Apokpa Mapu) The supreme being in Meitei folklore, mythology and religion.
  5. (Apokpa Marup) A Meitei socioreligious group, adhering to the revivalism of Sanamahism faith and Meetei script, from their previous states of extinction to proliferation, founded in 1930, in Cachar, Assam.