- Title
- Prem Bahadur (Salghare) reciting and making offerings during sakela or bhume puja
- Description
- Salghare, a ritual specialist (nagire nakcho or kubimi) of the Dumi Rai in his ritual dress performs a part of the sakela or bhume ritual in one of the most important households of the village. Together with a couple of ritual assistants (taya) he offers local brandy (raksi) and rice to the ancestors through the fire place of the house while reciting. The traditional, ritually inaugurated fire place consists of three round stones that represent different sets of ancestors, surrounded by a stone demarcation.
- Keywords
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ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:ubhauli
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance
ritual-type:animist>ritual:bhume>deity:Sakela
ritual-type:ancestral
- Location
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- Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
- Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
- Municipality: Kepilasagadhi
- City: Sapteswor [geonames.org]
- Location: Maldel
- Location_detail: House above Patar Mani's house
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
