- Title
- A woman lighting incense as offering at the place of worship for Khema at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival
- Description
- According to the myth of the two sisters Toma and Khema, and their younger brother Kakcilipu (as they are called among the Dumi Rai), the sisters invented the craft of weaving on the hill of Tuwachung-Jayajum. The offerings consist, amongst other things, of flowers, burning incense, rice, and colored powder.
- Keywords
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ritual-type:animist>deity:Sacred Stone
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
ritual-type:ancestral>event:offering for the ancestors
group:Rai
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu>mythological-figure:Khema
group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu
ritual-type:hinduist
ritual-type:ancestral
- Location
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- Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
- Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
- Municipality: Halesi Tuwachung
- City: Salle [geonames.org]
- Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum>place:Khema worshipping place>deity:Khema
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
-
- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
