Apokpa

{{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

}}

{{Meitei mythology}}

An Apokpa or an Apokpi is an ancestral deity belonging to one particular clan or family, often prevailed in the Meitei religion (Sanamahism).{{Cite web |year=2008 |title=Indian Anthropologist: Journal of the Indian Anthropological Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYrYfD_xZsoC&q=apokpa}}

Each of the seven clans and the families of the Meitei ethnicity worship their ancestors having separate pantheons dedicated to them.{{Cite book |last=Ranajit Kumar Saha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lpuAAAAMAAJ&q=apokpa |title=Valley Society of Manipur: A Cultural Frontier of Indian Civilization |year=1994 |isbn=9788185094823}}{{Cite book |last=Saroj Nalini Parratt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WEQqAAAAYAAJ&q=apokpa |title=The Religion of Manipur: Beliefs, Rituals, and Historical Development |publisher=Firma KLM |year=1980 |isbn=9780836405941}}{{Cite journal |year=1983 |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}}{{Cite book |last1=Arabinda Basu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkyAAAAAMAAJ&q=apokpa |title=Anthropology for North-East India, a Reader: Indian Anthropological Congress Commemorative Volume |last2=Biman Kumar Das Gupta |last3=Jayanta Sarkar |publisher=Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, Indian Anthropological Society, National Museum of Mankind |year=2004 |isbn=9788185525044}}