- Title
- Portrait of the ritual specialist in charge of the bhume deity.
- Description
- The ritual specialist in charge of the bhume offering to the bhume or sakela deitiy 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. He holds a ritual spear in his right hand and a bamboo stick with frayed ends in his left. In his belt he has stuck some leaves of the isilim tree.
- 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
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
- 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:Bhume deity worshipping place>deity:Bhume
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
