By Geoffrey Peters ne adam wata
A tsakiyar daya daga cikin tsoffin dazuzzuka masu tsarki na Indiya, daidaikun mutane daga al'ummomin asali sun hada karfi da karfe tare da Kiristoci don ba da shawara don kiyaye abin da suke ganin ba su da kima da wuraren daji masu tsarki.
Mai suna bayan ƙauyen da yake—Mawphlang—Dajin yana cikin tsaunin Khasi da ke jihar Meghalaya a arewa maso gabashin Indiya, ba da nisa da iyakar Indiya da China. An san shi daban-daban kamar "Gidan kayan gargajiya"Da kuma"mazaunin gajimareMawphlang na nufin "dutse mai lullube da gansakuka” a cikin yaren Khasi na gida kuma tabbas shine mafi shaharar dazuzzuka masu tsarki 125 a jihar.
An yi imani da zama mazaunin wani abin bautawa na asali wanda ke kare mazauna ƙauye daga cutarwa, Mawphlang yanki ne mai yawa, mecca mai girman kadada 193 don tsire-tsire na magani, namomin kaza, tsuntsaye da kwari. Shekaru aru-aru, mutane suna ziyartar tsattsarkan kurmi kamar Mawphlang don yin addu'a da kuma yin hadaya ta dabbobi ga gumakan da suka yi imani suna zaune a waɗannan wurare. Duk wani aikin tozarta haramun ne; har ma da sauƙi na ɗaukar fure ko ganye an haramta shi a yawancin dazuzzuka.
"A nan, sadarwa tsakanin mutum da Allah yana faruwa," Tambor Lyngdoh, memba na zuriyar kakannin dangin firist na gida wanda ya keɓe dajin Mawphlang, ya fada wa Kamfanin Dillancin Labarai na Associated Press a cikin wani labari na ranar 17 ga Janairu. "Kakanninmu sun ware wadannan tsaunuka da gandun daji don nuna jituwa tsakanin mutum da yanayi."
Amma a baya-bayan nan, sauyin yanayi, gurbacewar yanayi da sare itatuwa sun yi illa ga dazuzzuka masu tsarki kamar Mawphlang. Musuluntar ƴan asalin ƙasar zuwa Kiristanci, wanda aka qaddamar a cikin karni na 19 a karkashin mulkin mallaka na Birtaniyya, ya kuma yi tasiri ga al'adun gida.
A cewar HH Morhmen, mai kula da muhalli kuma mai ritaya mai hidima na Unitarian, waɗanda suka koma Kiristanci sun rasa dangantakarsu ta ruhaniya da gandun daji da imani na gargajiya. "Sun kalli sabon nasu addini kamar yadda haske da waɗannan al'adu a matsayin duhu, a matsayin arna ko ma mugunta," labarin AP ya nakalto Mohrmen yana cewa.
A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, masana muhalli hada kai da al’ummomin ‘yan asali da na Kirista, tare da hukumomin gwamnati, sun taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen yada bayanai game da muhimmancin kula da dazuzzukan. Ana ganin yanayin muhallin yana da amfani ga ma'aunin muhalli na yankin da bambancin halittu.
"Yanzu mun gano cewa ko a wuraren da mutane suka koma Kiristanci, suna kula da dazuzzuka," in ji Mohrmen.
Jaintia Hills, yanki na wasu gidaje 500, misali ne na yau da kullun. A cewar Heimonmi Shylla, shugaban yankin, wanda shi ma shugaban coci ne, kusan kowane mazaunin Presbyterian ne, Katolika ko kuma memba na Cocin Allah.
"Ba na daukar dajin da tsarki," kamar yadda ya shaida wa AP. "Amma ina matukar girmama shi."
Wani Kirista mazaunin Jaintia Hills, Petros Pyrtuh, a kai a kai yana shiga cikin wani daji mai tsarki kusa da ƙauyensa tare da ɗansa ɗan shekara 6 a cikin bege na koya masa abin girmamawa da girmamawa ga gandun daji. Pyrtuh ya ce: "A zamaninmu, ba mu yarda cewa mazaunin alloli ne ba." "Amma muna ci gaba da al'adar kare daji saboda kakanninmu sun ce kada mu lalata dajin."
