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This festival is held in the early part of the month
'Penepho' (December) of the Rengma Nagas. Celebration of the festival
marks the end of the agricultural year. This festival continues for eight
days and each day has its own significance.
The Rituals
On the first day, rice beer is brewed. On the second day, the graves of
the ancestors are repaired by their descendants by cutting the jungles
around the graves and by replacing the fallen stone slabs on the graves.
On the third day, the women offer rice beer on the graves of their
forefathers. On the fourth day, the young boys and girls sing and dance in
memory of the ancestors.
On the same day, the young boys and girls collect foodstuff from the
families of the village to be taken in a feast on the last day of the
festival. On the sixth day, rice beer is drunk by one and all. On the
seventh day, men go out to gather thatch for repairing their own houses.
On the last day that is on the eighth the young men of the 'Rensi' arrange
a feast for them.