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[[Sanamahi]] (Ashiba) was creating the earth. But he was frequently disturbed by his younger brother, [[Pakhangba]] (Haraba). Unable to do any work, Sanamahi complained about the matter to their father, [[Salailen]] (or [[Atingkok]] according to different versions of stories). Salailen produced a divine feminine being. He released her into the great space (void) of the universe (cosmos). In the vast emptiness of the great space (void), the divine feminine being became a beautiful and radiant goddess. She was named "Nongthang Leima", the ''Queen of Lightning''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxovEAAAQBAJ&dq=nongthang+leima&pg=PT11|title=And That Is Why... Manipuri Myths Retold|last=Roy|first=L. Somi|date=2021-06-21|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-91149-65-9|pages=11|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkMwAQAAIAAJ&q=nongthang+leima|title=Politics, Society, and Cosmology in India's North East|last=Brara|first=N. Vijaylakshmi|date=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-564331-2|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />