Fungling, 1 July : The Kirati community has started celebrating Cisekpa Tangnam. Saune Sankranti is celebrated by the Kirati community as Sisekpa Tangnam.
It is a tradition for those communities to hang new ripe fruits on a rope to offer them on this day in honor of their favorite deity. On the day of the Kirati Cisekpa Tangnam, they go to the fields or nearby forests in the morning to collect the grains, fruits and leaves (cheongs) needed for the Cisekpa Tangnam.
In the afternoon, there is a custom of hanging the rope around the main door of the house by stringing the green babio bati on it. Indira Menyangbo, President of Kirat Yakthung Chumlung Branch, Taplejung, said that all the families get together early in the morning to prepare food, fruits and other dishes at home and enjoy. According to Menyangbo, on the day of Cisekpa Tangnam, in the evening, after having a sweet meal in the village, gunshots are suddenly fired all around, above and around. Thal, Jhamta, Nanglo and Dhol are played. Children and young people of every house who can walk, under the guidance and motivation of the elders of the house, go around all the places inside the house and even around the house, playing these materials and expelling some bad elements from inside the house to the outside.
Farmer’s children chanted in their own mother tongue, ‘Sankranti go, Mankranti aau; In the sense of “Famine go, Sahakal come”, they celebrate famine or suffering as a festival and rejoice.
In the same way, they expressed their wishes and prayers for the end of the quarrels in the family, the socio-cultural disharmony in the village and the political instability, conflict and unrest in the entire nation, and they urged them to go with Sankranti. Therefore, now we are rejoicing that we will live for at least six months until Maghe Sankranti, says the people of Kirat religion.
The president of Kirat Sahitya Uthan Sangh Gyanu Furambo (Charpe) said that the Kirat Limbu from the East, Tharu from Rai Terai and Magar, Gurung from the West have been celebrating this Sankranti festival as Sisekpa Tangnam. Furumbu said that Kirati celebrates Sisekpa Tangnam (Saunesankranti) and Kakphekwa Tangnam (Maghe Sankranti) as great festivals.
He said, “In Cisekpa Tangnam, it is celebrated that winter has come, now they will live and will be better, while in Maghe Sankranti, they celebrate that it has rained and now they will die or live.
