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 SAKEWA   : THE GREAT FESTIVAL OF RAI Community of Sikkim                                            

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Rai girls of Sikkim wearing traditional dress and ornament

 

Rai people are gentle and god fearing. They offer puja to the nature during the Sakewa festival and they dance joining their hands in circle. People rear cows, pigs the pet animal and plow the land.

Most of the Rai people live in hill area. Therefore, they are now as the offspring of Paruhang, Kirateswar of the God Shiva. They call sumnima for Parbati and Paruhang for God Shiva. They lit the fire on the furnace made of three stones

Rai girls of Sikkim wearing traditional dress and ornament

   

Rai girls in their traditional dress and ornament

 

 

              Rai girls in their traditional dress and ornament
 

  Two young Rai boys

 

A Rai woman

     
 

Children playing during puja festival at a village,Dj.

 

  A Rai lady with traditional grinder called Jato

 

Rai men and women with other people                                      -A Rai lady with ornament

 

 

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