- Title
- Reijakhule stones near the place of worship for Khema
- Description
- The meaning of the groups of stones worshipped here and called reijakhule is discussed controversially among the participants of the festival. Elder Bishnu Bahadur Chamling from Chiringa village explains, that the three-stepped stone on the very left represents Khema (left), the maiti (kinship of the mother's side of Toma and Khema, tall in the middel) and Toma (right). Other participants associate it with Malla devi, the daughter of a Malla king.
- Keywords
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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
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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:Reijakule deity>deity:Reijakule
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
