- Title
- Participants of the bhume ritual to install a new bhume or sakela goddess at the Tuwachung-Jayajum festival site
- Description
- Supported by a drummer, dancers of Rudalung and Aiselukharka village ritually dance around the ritual site while the ritual specialist, Jaruman Rai - a Chamling Rai from the nearby village of Aiselukharka - installs the new bhume or sakela goddess with the help of ritual assitants.
- 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)
-
- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
