- Title
- Rai woman placing offerings in front of the weaving stone of Toma during the Tuwachung-Jayajum festival
- Description
- This group of stones is worshiped by the Rai communities of the region as the stones on which mythological heroine Toma (also Toyama), the elder of two mythological sisters, used to weave. According to the myth of the two sisters Toma and Khema, and their younger brother Kakcilipu (as they are called among the Dumi Rai) the sisters invented the craft of weaving on the hill of Tuwachung-Jayajum. The offerings consist, amongst other things, of flowers, burning incense, rice, and colored powder. The stones are ritually surrounded by a white cottong thread. Parts of a traditional weaving gear are symbolloically placed on the stone for the festival day.
- Keywords
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work-sphere:craft>process:weaving
ritual-type:ancestral>event:offering for the ancestors
ritual-type:animist>deity:Sacred Stone
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
group:Rai
ritual-type:hinduist
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu>mythological-figure:Toma
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu
ritual-type:ancestral
- 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:Toma worshipping place>deity:Toma
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
