- Title
- A ritual assistant presents the sakela stones
- Description
- Among the Dumi Rai, the largely female sakela or bhume deities manifest in stones that are kept in the ground at a special spot (sakela than) during the year and only dug out during the sakela ritual. Here a part of the stones that can only be touched by specially designates ritual functionaries are shown to the ritual participants at this occasion.
- Keywords
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object-type:Ritual Object>object:Sakela Stone>deity:Sakela Bhume deity
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
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
