- Title
- Installation of a new bhume or sakela deity on a hill next to the festival ground of Tuwachung-Jayajum
- Description
- The ritual specialist in charge of the bhume offering to the bhume or sakela deitiy at Tuwachung-Jayajum, Jaruman Rai (a Chamling Rai from the nearby village of Aiselukharka) ritually installs the new bhume / sakela deity on the hill next to Tuwachung-Jayajum with the help of ritual assistants and drummers. Chatur Bhakta Rai, president of the Kirat Rai Yayokkha, helps placing the stone that represents the deity. Meanwhile dancers from Rudalung and other villages dance around the new bhume than.
- 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
