- Title
- The ritual specialist Prem Bahadur (Salghare) starts the rituals at the bhume or sakela than
- Description
- Salghare, the ritual specialist (nagire nakcho or kubimi) in charge, performs a part of the bhume or sakela agricultural ritual. Arriving at the sakela than, the place where the deity for who the ritual is performed dwells and where many participants have already assembled, he offers rice and local brandy (raksi), before the sakela deity is dug out of the ground, where she stays during the rest of the year. The dwelling places of the sakela deities are often underneath a large banyan tree near the village.
- 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:ancestral>event:offering for the ancestors
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
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
