Mizo Kristian Hla Hmasa Ber Better [updated] Guide

Chhunga’s first hymn was addressed to For the first time in Mizo history, a human being looked up to the sky and used a familial, intimate term. That is infinitely better than screaming into the void of animism. The hymn shifts from fear to love.

Rev. J.H. Lorrain (Pu Buanga) and Rev. F.W. Savidge (Sapupa). mizo kristian hla hmasa ber better

One evening, sitting by a fire, he began to sing. The words were not borrowed from Western tunes. The melody was not a harmonized European chorale. It was a raw, repetitive, chanting-like tune reminiscent of chheih lam or sadawi —traditional Mizo folk forms. The lyrics were brutally simple: Chhunga’s first hymn was addressed to For the