A ritual assistant presents the sakela stones

Title: A ritual assistant presents the sakela stones
Description: Among the Dumi Rai, the largely female sakela or bhume deities manifest in stones that are kept in the ground at a special spot (sakela than) during the year and only dug out during the sakela ritual. Here one of the stones that can only be touched by specially designates ritual functionaries is shown to the ritual participants at this occasion.
Keywords: 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 object-type:Ritual Object>object:Sakela Stone>deity:Sakela Bhume deity researcher:Marion Wettstein ritual-type:ancestral
Location: Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]

Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]

Municipality: Kepilasagadhi

City: Sapteswor [geonames.org]

Location: Maldel

Location_detail: Maldel Bhumethan
GPS Coordinates: 27.3195, 86.7838
description author(s): Marion Wettstein

von Stockhausen, Alban

hav media handle: 10138
original media identifier: NP11_Ph50D_00516
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
original media type: digital/photo
creator(s): von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date: May 18, 2011
archived by: jusch
archiving date: May 12, 2021, 6:03 a.m.

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