Bhume puja recitation by a ritual specialist
- von Stockhausen, Alban
- Wettstein, Marion
Content Description
- Title
- Bhume puja recitation by a ritual specialist
- Description
- This document is a transcript and rough translation of an in vitro recording of a bhume puja recitation performed by a ritual specialist of the Dumi Rai in Eastern Nepal. The bhume (Nepali) or sakela (Dumi Rai) rituals are offerings performed for the deities of the soil. Among the Dumi Rai, one of the roughly 30 Rai groups in eastern Nepal, the offering is held once a year before sewing (around June), in other Rai groups it may be held twice a year before sewing and harvest (around November). The offerings are celebrated as a daylong festival called ubhauli (rising or sewing season) and udhauli (falling or harvesting season) and comprise of rituals at the fire places in the households, communal offerings at the dwelling places of the deities (bhume than or sakela than), and circular dances by the village communities.
- Keywords
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village ritual researcher:Alban von Stockhausen ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance agricultural ritual affiliation:rai sewing ritual-type:animist>ritual:bhume>deity:Sakela ritual-type:ancestral recitation informant:PB festival ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:ubhauli researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai researcher:Marion Wettstein ritual informant:Chatur Bhakta Rai ritual specialist ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship affiliation:dumi
- Location
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- Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
- Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
- City: Maldel [geonames.org]
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
Media Description
- hav media handle
- 14036
- original media identifier
- NP11_AuL11_00087
- license
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
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- original media type
- digital/sound
- creator(s)
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- von Stockhausen, Alban (audiographer)
- Wettstein, Marion (audiographer)
- creation date
- May 19, 2011 - May 19, 2011
- archived by
- jusch
- archiving date
- May 11, 2022, 4:38 a.m.