Participants placing offerings for the sakela puja at Hattiban temple

Title: Participants placing offerings for the sakela puja at Hattiban temple
Description: The offerings placed at the Hattiban temple mainly consist of fruits, rice, incense, money, and flowers. While in the villages the offering of animals such as cocks and pigs are widespread among the Rai, the urban Rai decided to largely abstain from animal offerings at Hattiban temple.
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: 10539
original media identifier: NP11_Ph5D2_08701
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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