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a small agricultural ritual |
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Ten days after the great Oyabu ("Bihu") they make a small genna on the fields, also called Oyabu. All people go to their fields and cook rice in six chungas, in each, one sort. No chicken is killed. They eat the rice in the field house and make a small altar outside. A few short thin bamboos are stuck into the ground and madhu in leaf cups is put down at them. Moreover two bamboos with small baskets on the top are erected and the baskets filled with earth. This earth shall symbolize (95) how much rice and millet will be offered to Ghawang. They say: [konyak]. The empty chungas are fastened to the small altar and remain there. |
