Skip to main content

A woman giving offerings at the place of worship for Khema at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival

  • von Stockhausen, Alban
(June 6, 2011)
ccbyncsa4.0

Content Description

Title
A woman giving offerings at the place of worship for Khema at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival
Description
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.
Keywords
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 mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu>mythological-figure:Khema researcher:Marion Wettstein group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu ritual-type:ancestral
Location
  • Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
  • Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
  • Municipality: Halesi Tuwachung
  • City: Salle [geonames.org]
  • Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum
  • Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum>place:Khema worshipping place>deity:Khema
  • Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
description author(s)
  • Marion Wettstein
  • von Stockhausen, Alban

Media Description

hav media handle
10313
original media identifier
NP11_Ph5D2_04829
original media type
digital/photo
creator(s)
  • von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date
June 6, 2011
archived by
jusch
archiving date
May 12, 2021, 6:04 a.m.

Archived Files and Derivatives

file information
NP11_Ph5D2_04829.dng (27.9 MB)
resource links