Holidays Wa

Holiday of the Sowing:

On lunar March 15. The first family that has grain to sow, warns a shaman, that it chooses gifts and warns the relatives and friends. In the morning they do gifts in an altar that the priest prepares, and then a group sows while other prepares the meal. In the evening it is sung, dances and the young people is courted.

Holiday of Tax of the Elephant.

The people meet and do gifts. They all kneel down and sing asking to the elephants them to protect the harvests. This is done to commemorate the occasion in which a white elephant saved the men of a flood that was devastating his grounds.

To cut the tail to the ox.

It is an ancient ceremony that is done in honor of the gods of the cultivation to ask for peace and prosperity. All the people of the village meet, and of the nearby villages, an ox sticks, and the tail cuts him. Immediately afterwards it finishes with him to blows with a machete. Trocea his meat and between they all are distributed.

Music:
The wooden drums have a big importance in the religious activities of the Wa. According to his tradition she was one of his first ancestresses the one that initiated the above mentioned custom.

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