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Today, on the 1st of July, i.e., the day of the solstice, the Kirant community is celebrating the 'Sisekpa Tangnam' festival. Karna Bahadur Palungwa, president of Kirant Dharma and Sahitya Utthan Sangh Taplejung, said that it has been a tradition to offer newly ripe fruits and hang them on a rope in honor of their favorite deity.
Now corn is grown year-round from hybrid varieties. But earlier, where there was a large human settlement, corn ripened only in the month of June/July, and it was also the time to bring in Chaite rice," Palungwa said. And even now that is the custom. Our community is celebrating that festival especially today.'
According to Palungwa, this festival has been present in the Kirant community since the beginning of human civilization.
By offering ripe grain to God, people can Palungwa said that it is believed that if you eat it, you will get blessings from God and peace. According to Kirant religious guru Indrahang Palungwa, since it is believed that God stays in secret from 1st to 15th of July, one should not go to the God's temple and make noise, and one should not ring the conch bell.
Both the Fedangwa method and the Kirat script have been used in the Kirant community. Palungwa says that until two or three decades ago, people could only eat their own crops and had to wait for the time to eat their own crops. But they said that the tradition has not been lost in the village.
According to astrology, it is also known as 'Cancer Sankranti' as the sun enters the Cancer sign from the Sun Sankranti in terms of solar dates. Although the Sun generally affects all the Rasis, the entry of the Sun into Cancer (Saune Sankranti) and Makara Rasi (Maghe Sankranti) is considered religiously significant . It is believed that the day will become shorter and the night will become longer as the sun will enter from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere from today.
According to the statement 'Mano Khai Muri Ubjaun' in agricultural countries, it is also considered as a festival where the farmers who are tired from the farming work that they have done for the whole month of May to June wash off the mud and the family and relatives sit down and eat delicious food and share harmony with each other .
Kurilo, Kaag Bhalayo, Panisaro, Pureni, There is also a practice of burning medicinal plants, etc., from the courtyard in the evening and throwing looto in all directions. Medini Prasad Paudel says in Fungling 8 that there is a custom of playing the nanglo, blowing the conch shell, ringing the bell, banging the drum and closing the door of the house for a while.
