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In the remote village of Kongtong, India, the sun is setting, it's dinner time a mother

is singing, and her voice echoes through the small town center, out over the fields

and into the jungle.

She wrote this particular song specifically for her child, it's a wordless tune as familiar

to him as his own name.

He hears it and comes running and sings back to her.

But here's the truly remarkable thing, across this village dozens of other mothers are

doing the same exactly.

I'm Don Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

In Kongtong, India, every person's name is a unique song composed by their mother within

a week of their birth.

We travel to Northeastern India today to hear the songs that are part of a centuries-old

tradition.

That's after this.

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