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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Ethno review</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Ethno review</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Этнографическое обозрение</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-5415</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-6274</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">672221</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S086954152304005X</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">HJCNLS</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Heraka: historical memory and new mythology of naga tribes</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Херака: историческая память и новая мифология у нага</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bychkova</surname><given-names>A. A</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бычкова</surname><given-names>А. А</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>aneta-taurus@rambler.ru</email></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-08-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>08</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">NO4 (2023)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№4 (2023)</issue-title><fpage>84</fpage><lpage>93</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-02-27"><day>27</day><month>02</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://transsyst.ru/0869-5415/article/view/672221">https://transsyst.ru/0869-5415/article/view/672221</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the late 1920s, on the territory where Naga tribes resided in the North East India, there emerged a mass religious reformation movement triggered by certain political and economic factors. Over the hundred years that have passed since, this movement has undergone changes. There appeared a new mythology and new religion called Heraka. Not only did heroes of past times remain in the social memory, but they continued to live their own lives and keep playing important roles in the political arena of the region and the country. I attempt to examine the images of real human characters in the context of evolution of the historical memory and gain the understanding of the place that Heraka occupies in the new official mythology. I argue that the development of Heraka is related to the split between the dividing lines of two nationalist ideologies: the ideology of forming an independent Christian state of Nagalim within the territory of residence of Naga tribes and the ideology of Hindutva.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В конце 20-х годов ХХ в. на территории племен нага, расселенных в Северо-Восточной Индии, развернулось религиозно-реформаторское движение, обусловленное рядом политических и экономических причин. За прошедшие почти сто лет это движение претерпело существенные изменения. Возникли новая мифология и новая религия - хе́рака. Герои былых времен не просто сохранились в памяти этноса, они живут своей жизнью и продолжают играть определенные роли на политической арене региона и страны. Мы пытаемся рассмотреть образы реальных людей в процессе эволюции исторической памяти и понять, какое место занимает религия херака в новой официальной мифологии. Нам представляется, что развитие херака связано с противостоянием двух националистических идеологий: идеологии создания независимого христианского государства Нагалим на территории расселения племен нага и идеологии хиндутвы.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>tribes</kwd><kwd>religious reformation movement</kwd><kwd>mythology</kwd><kwd>ethnos</kwd><kwd>ideology</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>племена</kwd><kwd>религиозно-реформаторское движение</kwd><kwd>мифология</kwd><kwd>этнос</kwd><kwd>идеология</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Бычкова А.А Метаморфозы или путь на северо-восток // Махатма Ганди и современный мир / Отв. ред. Т.Н. Загородникова. M.: РАН, 2020. С. 102-112.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Arkotong Longkumer. Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging. 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