- Title
- Installation of a new bhume or sakela deity on a hill next to the festival ground of Tuwachung-Jayajum
- Description
- The ritual specialist in charge of the bhume offering to the bhume or sakela deitiy at Tuwachung-Jayajum, Jaruman Rai (a Chamling Rai from the nearby village of Aiselukharka) ritually installs the new bhume / sakela deity on the hill next to Tuwachung-Jayajum with the help of ritual assistants and drummers. Chatur Bhakta Rai, president of the Kirat Rai Yayokkha, helps placing the stone that represents the deity. Meanwhile dancers from Rudalung and other villages dance around the new bhume than.
- Keywords
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researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
informant:Jaruman Rai
group:Rai
ritual-type:hinduist
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:discovering a new bhume deity
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:Bhume deity worshipping place>deity:Bhume
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban