- Title
- A chicken is prepared as an offering to the sakela deity
- Description
- During the sakela or bhume ritual a number of chicken and cocks are offered to the sakela deities. Each of them is asked with a special technique whether it agrees to be chosen as sacrificial animal: Drops of local brandy are dripped on its head by the ritual specialist conducting the ritual. If the animal shakes the brandy off its head it signals agreement to being offered, which is not understood automatically.
- 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
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
