{"id":132479,"date":"2015-05-11T00:55:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=75272"},"modified":"2015-05-11T00:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:55:05","slug":"the-living-god-medicine-and-ancient-meetei-civilisation-is-officially-selected-for-los-angeles-independent-film-festival-and-los-angeles-cinefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2015\/05\/11\/the-living-god-medicine-and-ancient-meetei-civilisation-is-officially-selected-for-los-angeles-independent-film-festival-and-los-angeles-cinefest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Living God: Medicine and Ancient Meetei Civilisation is officially selected for Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Los Angeles CineFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short documentary by <strong>Prakas Abheibam<\/strong> that brings to international\u00a0light the advanced nature of ancient <strong>Meetei<\/strong> Civilization is officially\u00a0shortlisted for <strong>Best Documentary Short Film<\/strong>; <strong>Best Original Music\/Score<\/strong>\u00a0at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, a monthly film festival and\u00a0officially selected at Los Angeles Cine Fest, a monthly online event.<\/p>\n<p>It has also received an encouraging professional review in the\u00a0recently concluded The Monthly Film Festival, Gaslow, UK.\u00a0The Living God is a result of exhaustive research and comprehensive\u00a0understanding of the ancient Meetei Civilisation. The Monthly Film\u00a0Festival reviewed this short documentary \u201c&#8230; an example of\u00a0documentary film produced from nothing by resource-less staff who have\u00a0deep consciousness and appreciation of old values\u2026 or rather\u00a0forgotten human values that call out for their redeeming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This 30\u00a0minute documentary explores the nuances of this civilization and takes\u00a0us deep into the subject matter, looking beyond conventional knowledge\u00a0of Meetei culture and civilization known to all. It is a personal\u00a0initiative as aptly described in the review \u201cIt is not the script,\u00a0the cinematography or the overall cinematographic approach that keeps\u00a0you watching, for it would be no surprise if this was a film of\u00a0personal initiative (and neither does it look like these were an end\u00a0in themselves) but rather the curiosity about unknown things and\u00a0unsusp<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1407093552\"><span class=\"aQJ\">ected resour<\/span><\/span>ces of past civilizations\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angles Independent Film Festival will be held on June 13, 2015\u00a0while Los Angeles Cine Fest is slotted for June 3 to 17, 2015. Los\u00a0Angeles Cine Fest calls for online voting to support the Best in each\u00a0category. The voting opens and May 3, 2015 and ends on May 14, 2015 and\u00a0the voting can be done\u00a0using the below links,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lacinefest.weebly.com\/april.html\" >http:\/\/lacinefest.weebly.com\/<wbr \/>april.html<\/a> or<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lacinefest.weebly.com\/short-doc-page-3.html\" >http:\/\/lacinefest.weebly.com\/<wbr \/>short-doc-page-3.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project is available for public viewing at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/127016050\"  rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/127016050<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 can be liked on facebook at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thelivinggoddocu\" >https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>thelivinggoddocu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the video and short note on this documentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/127016050?color=ff9933\" width=\"820\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header id=\"page_header\">\n<h2 class=\"video_meta\">The Living God: Medicine and The Ancient Meetei Civilisation<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"video_meta\"><strong>by Prakas Aheibam<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"description_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"js-read_more_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"js-clip_description description read_more \" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">\n<p class=\"first\">When you study the writings, stories and remains of the civilization of a land called Kangleipak, you sense \u2018the existence of Lai\u2019 of the ancient Meetei civilization. That\u2019s when you experience yourself at a gateway, from where you communicate to an existence beyond the existence of Humankind.<\/p>\n<p>Meetei Civilization flourishes in the ancient land of Kangleipak, which now belongs to the north-eastern region of India bordering Burma. It is a civilization still unknown to the world. Its ancient script epitomizes the advanced nature of its civilization. The form, structure and phonology reveal the understanding of structure of human physiology. Its ancient writing, Puya, records their ancient knowledge on a widely varying subject like astrology, astronomy, genetics, medicine, human physiology, predictions, origin of life and the universe, and secrets of life and death. But most importantly, it writes about the mingling and relation between Lai (God) and Human.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, the mingling between the two can be witnessed during Lai Haraoba (Festivity of God), also occasionally during the phenomenal encountering and communication between Lai and their descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Withstanding the burning of Puya in 17th century, many mentions of this ancient writing still continue to exist in this land. The medicine of this ancient civilization is one such inheritance from the Lai (read ancestor God). The descendant still continues to treat various modern diseases with the healing power of this medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2015\/05\/the-living-god-medicine-and-ancient-meetei-civilisation-is-officially-selected-for-los-angeles-independent-film-festival-and-los-angeles-cinefest\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2015\/05\/the-living-god-medicine-and-ancient-meetei-civilisation-is-officially-selected-for-los-angeles-independent-film-festival-and-los-angeles-cinefest\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short documentary by Prakas Abheibam that brings to international&nbsp;light the advanced nature of ancient Meetei Civilization is officially&nbsp;shortlisted for Best Documentary Short Film; Best Original Music\/Score&nbsp;at Los Angeles Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[40,330],"class_list":["post-132479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-kanglaonline-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132480,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132479\/revisions\/132480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}