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Former Worship

Kho or Mathae is the creator of every thing. KHO was originally used in denotation of a powerful being controlling the world and if might have been ranked with supreme beings. SATHUI means God providers MangRhai means God of god.

The word Pathian does not accurately represent any from of the name used. It is not rooted in Matu soil. The word Pathian is, of later origin, On the other hand the word Pathian was translated into Pathen. But the word Pathian is adopted from Mizo (Lushai) concept. They believed in Supreme Being call Pathian who is supposed to be the creator of every things. F.K lehman state that “Lai people did not call their God Pathian of Khuazing when they wanted to call out. But they callout the name of place where the spirit was believed to dwell. For example;

  • KAISI nang nim kitu eeh!
  • BOL nang nim kipom eeh!
  • KANGKOLONG nang loh ham hlah eeh!

The life of Matupi religion plays every important role in developing social norm and other value systems. Our forefathers were not only reverence to KHO but also faithfulness to social relationship in community life. For them faithfulness our mother land many shepherds exploited the other in the name of God. In the name of God some Christian leader assassinates the minority in spiritually. The minority cannot escape the task of giving the critical examination of the issue of religion, culture and spirituality.

The culture history of Matu is integrally related to our social biography. Culture life is very dominated by these who are powerful. We must recover the culture heritage of the people, Grasping present our culture expression in our daily life, even though we life in the midst of dominant culture. Our mother land is a secret gift from KHO. It is also where assigned a people to live and acquire an identity. The Batu had so persistently and stubbornly resisted various attempts by the Association to relocate them in away from ancestral Land (Longlivan) which will be the site of other project.

On Some Christian expelled the Church rather than take care the community. Let consider the sovereignty of KHO on Matupi is the commission of the people. We are call act out the redemptive work of KHO in the besieged of or exilic situation of churches to day? Wherever are dehumanized condition or more broadly speaking, where we lives. Our ancestor confessed that KHO is the only king and Judge that he is lord and saving human being from despair. We seek assert if we have been sinking root in the community then we could be more productive in our life’s. It is the task assign to the people of Batu since the time of Longhang, Batu, and has been succeed by Churches today.

This is to say that our existence should be “home landsite”. The government and people should be identify. They must not be passenger. Since our land is bestowed by KHO, people should work together to establish as humanized community in which all people are brother and sister in peace and harmony. As mention in above belief in Kho was the essence of the development of social and religion norms. It provided our identity as a unique group of people. The exorcism as camping of the indigenous name of god carried out through education and religion because it is culture exorcism.

Nowadays, we, the Matu people ought to analyze our understanding of culture. A failure as to integrate religion paralyzed Matu community, Loss of culture dynamian and moral and national identity.