The Jirel (also known as Jiripas) of Nepal are both ethnically and linguistically related to both the Sherpas and Sunuwars. Their population of 5,300 are centered on the village of Jiri.
Their main occupation is agriculture. Plants that include wheat, barley, maize etc are probably planted. Little is known about them, but their close affinities with the Sherpa suggest that their culture is a form of the Bhoti culture.
The Jirels follow a form of TibetanLamaism, often mixing some animist and Hindu rituals and beliefs along with it. A BuddhistLama is known as a Phomba in their dialect.
Jirel loves passionately and hates feverishly, and she finds herself sometimes torn between her duty as the feudal lord of Joiry and her deepest and darkest passions.
Jirel encounters many terrors on her sojourn through this plane: stampedes of cursed blind horses, gibbering rat-like fiends, and a taunting mirror image of herself.
Jirel reacts with revulsion to most of it, but another instinct also causes her to shed tears for the land, which feels as if it writhes in pain.
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