Mage Parab

Mage Parab is the principal festival celebrated among the Ho people of eastern India, and is also celebrated by the Munda people, though followers of Birsa Dharam, a new religion based on traditional Munda spirituality and religion, do not celebrate Mage Parab, despite the fact that they celebrate other traditional Munda festivals.[1] It is also not celebrated by any other Munda-speaking peoples, and is much less prominent to the Mundas than to the Hos.[2] It is held in the month of Magha in honor of the deity Singbonga who, in the Ho creation myth, created Luku Kola, the first man on Earth.[3][4][5][6] It was first described in 1912 by Indian anthropologist Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy in his The Mundas and their Country.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Jha, Amit (2009). Contemporary Religious Institutions in Tribal India. Delhi: Lulu.com. p. 72. ISBN 9780557090532.
  2. ↑ Ghurye, Govind Sadashiv (1 January 1980). The Scheduled Tribes of India. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. p. 267. ISBN 9781412838856.
  3. ↑ "Maghe Parab in W Singhbhum". The Avenue Mail. Vimal Agarwal. 28 January 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Mage festival observed". The Avenue Mail. Vimal Agarwal. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Ho Community, Odisha". Kerai Entertainment. 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Mohanta, Basanta Kumar (2 March 2007). "Rituals And Festivals Of The Ho Tribe by Basanta Kumar Mohanta". Tribal Instincts. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Singh, Ajit K. (1982). Tribal Festivals of Bihar: A Functional Analysis. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. p. 18.


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