Video: All the best for the dogs: a holiday in Nepal celebrating human four-legged friends
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Every year, Nepal hosts the five-day Tihar "festival of lights". For all these five days, the country lights up like a firefly at night - candles and lanterns are brought out into the streets, fireworks are launched into the sky, and all the streets are decorated with flowers. One of the days is completely dedicated to the celebration of the best friend of man - on this day, dogs are the main characters, to whom gratitude, honor and, of course, various goodies are extolled.
The festival itself is known as Svanti or Tihar (Swanti), and the second day dedicated to dogs is named Kukur Tihar. Dogs are considered sacred animals in Nepal, able to communicate with the god of death Yama. And on this day, people dress dogs in flower garlands, treat dogs with sweets and in every possible way appease the dogs in order to appease the god of death in this way. However, that holiday is not only an indirect communication with the gods, it is also an exaltation of the special connection between people and dogs.
All five days of the Tihar festival are dedicated to various legends and the exaltation of various animals, with which the life of people is closely connected. On the first day of the festival, honors are offered up to the crows, who are considered messengers of death. On the third day, the Nepalese celebrate and honor the Day of the Cow. The fourth day is Vol Day, and this festival ends, celebrating the greatness of the people themselves.
However, there are other festivals in Nepal where the fate of the animals cannot be envied. So, during the Gadhimai festival, the Nepalese slaughter a huge number of pets in the name of good luck. Read about this bloody holiday, and about other equally terrible events around the world in our review " 10 most horrible and shocking holidays in different cultures".
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