- Title
- The ritual specialist in charge of the bhume ritual at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival arrives at the festival ground
- Description
- The ritual specialist in charge of the bhume offering to the bhume or sakela deity at Tuwachung-Jayajum is Jaruman Rai, a Chamling Rai from the nearby village of Aiselukharka. In his function as ritual specialist he wears, amongst other things, a traditional white cotton suit, a white turban with peakock feathers stuck to it, a white cloth belt, and strings with bells crossed over his chest.
- Keywords
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researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
group:Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu
informant:Jaruman Rai
ritual-type:hinduist
ritual-type:ancestral
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:discovering a new bhume deity
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
