The official ritual specialist or shaman of the Kirat Rai Yayokkha performing sakela puja at Hattiban temple

Title: The official ritual specialist or shaman of the Kirat Rai Yayokkha performing sakela puja at Hattiban temple
Description: At the time of this sakela puja, the official ritual specialist or shaman of the Kirat Rai Yayokkha was Asta Bahadur Rai (also called Pandere) from Poklu village of the Dumi Rai. The offering space in Hattiban temple consists of four sides, each of which is the ritual space for one of the Kirat groups: Rai, Limbu, Yakkha and Sunuwar.
Keywords: group:Yakkha researcher:Alban von Stockhausen organizer:Kirat Rai Yayokkha ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship group:Limbu ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:udhauli group:Rai group:Sunuwar researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance researcher:Marion Wettstein ritual-type:kirat ritual-type:ancestral
Location: Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]

Province/state: Kathmandu [geonames.org]

Municipality: Kathmandu

City: Kathmandu [geonames.org]

Location_detail: Hattiban
description author(s): Marion Wettstein

von Stockhausen, Alban

hav media handle: 10532
original media identifier: NP11_Ph5D2_08697
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
original media type: digital/photo
creator(s): von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date: Dec. 10, 2011
archived by: jusch
archiving date: May 12, 2021, 6:07 a.m.

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