What is Apokpa?
{{About|the deities|religious denomination|Apokpa Marup}} An '''Apokpa''' or an '''Apokpi''' is an ancestral deity belonging to one particular clan or family, often prevailed in the [[Meitei religion]] ([[Sanamahism]]).<ref name=IJ>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYrYfD_xZsoC&q=apokpa|title=Indian Anthropologist: Journal of the Indian Anthropological Association |year=2008 |volume=38-39}}</ref> Almost all the clans and the families of the [[Meitei ethnicity]] worship their ancestors having separate pantheons dedicated to them.<ref name=Val>{{cite book|title=Valley Society of Manipur: A Cultural Frontier of Indian Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lpuAAAAMAAJ&q=apokpa|author=Ranajit Kumar Saha|year=1994|isbn = 9788185094823}}</ref><ref name=Rel>{{cite book|title=The Religion of Manipur: Beliefs, Rituals, and Historical Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WEQqAAAAYAAJ&q=apokpa|author=Saroj Nalini Parratt|year=1980|publisher=Firma KLM|isbn = 9780836405941}}</ref><ref name=J>{{cite journal|title=Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ON-AAAAAMAAJ&q=apokpa|journal=Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society|publisher=The Society|volume=18|year=1983}}</ref><ref name=Read>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkyAAAAAMAAJ&q=apokpa|title=Anthropology for North-East India, a Reader: Indian Anthropological Congress Commemorative Volume|author1=Arabinda Basu|author2= Biman Kumar Das Gupta|author3= Jayanta Sarkar|year=2004|publisher=Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, Indian Anthropological Society, National Museum of Mankind|isbn=9788185525044}}</ref> {{Infobox deity|type=Meitei|name=Apokpa|deity_of=Ancestral deity of families and clans|member_of=[[Meitei deities]]|affiliation=[[Meitei religion]] ([[Sanamahism]])|abodes=House of the respective family or clan|region=[[India]] ([[Manipur]], [[Assam]] and [[Tripura]]), [[Bangladesh]] and [[Myanmar]]|ethnic_group=[[Meitei ethnicity]]}} ==Other