- Title
- Chatur Bhakta Rai, president of Kirat Rai Yayokkha, at the place of worship for Khema
- 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 coloured powder. Kirat Rai Yayokkha is the cultural and social ethnic umbrella organisation of the Rai communities in Nepal and the diasporas.
- Keywords
-
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
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 weaving place>deity:Khema
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
-
- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
