- Title
- A ritual assistant digs out the stone that represents the sakela deity at the sakhela or bhume than
- Description
- Salghare, the ritual specialist (nagire nakcho or kubimi) in charge, performs a part of the bhume or sakela agricultural ritual. Arriving at the sakela than, the place where the deity for who the ritual is performed dwells and where many participants have already assembled, he offers rice and local brandy (raksi), before the sakela deity is dug out of the ground, where she stays during the rest of the year. The dwelling places of the sakela deities are often underneath a large banyan tree near the village.
- Keywords
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ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:ubhauli
ritual-type:animist>ritual:bhume>deity:Sakela
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance
researcher:Marion Wettstein
ritual-type:ancestral
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
