Cock offering at the bhume or sakela than

Title: Cock offering at the bhume or sakela than
Description: Many participants have assembled at the sakela than, the place where the deity for who the sakela or bhume ritual is performed dwells. After the procession with the ritual specialist and the ritual assistants has arrived – among them a woman carrying a ritual basket full of rice, drummers and cymbal players – chicken and cocks are offered to the deity.
Keywords: 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: Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]

Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]

Municipality: Kepilasagadhi

City: Sapteswor [geonames.org]

Location: Maldel

Location_detail: Maldel Bhumethan
GPS Coordinates: 27.3195, 86.7838
description author(s): Marion Wettstein

von Stockhausen, Alban

hav media handle: 10155
original media identifier: NP11_Ph50D_00531
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
original media type: digital/photo
creator(s): von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date: May 18, 2011
archived by: jusch
archiving date: May 12, 2021, 6:03 a.m.

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