- Title
- Worship place of an unknown devi (goddess) at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival site
- Description
- Rai participants of the Tuwachung-Jayajum festival acknowledge that this place is the worship place of a presumably Hindu devi (goddess) unknown to them. Informing that the stones of whorship had origininally been assembled in the middle of the semi -circled stone demarcation, they assume someone had shifted the stones since the last festival. Though unknown to them, the participants nevertheless worship the devi in order not to neglect her.
- 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
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:unknown Hindu deity II>deity:unknown Hindu deity
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
