- 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 one of the stones that can only be touched by specially designates ritual functionaries is 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
