Diwali (Deepawali)

The Muria tribal society calls Deepawali a wall in its language. He celebrates the wall to strengthen his faith and faith in his gods. For him, this festival is not a festival of wealth and light, but a festival of dedication to his gods. Just as he celebrates all his festivals in a traditional way, he also celebrates Deewad. The tribal Muria community celebrates it for only three days. On the second day of Dhanteras, which is called Roop Chaudas or Narak Chaudas, on that day he cleans all his religious faith centers and lights a lamp at these faith centers. He calls this day to be suroti. To start is to begin.

In the middle of the village of faith of the tribal Muria society, "Jaga Rani" whom he calls "Talur Muÿo", which means mother of many children. "Mohada beda" (deep field) means the field in which he gives charu. The tree located near it is believed to be the abode of Rao Baba and Kaudo (the holy soul of the boy. "Ana Kudma" is the place of Dumadeva (Pitrudev) of the Gotraja people of the village. The "Nukang Lone" (the sacred room for keeping the rice handi), the cow kotha, the barn, the gothan (where the village pets rest) and the monastery of the dead (death pillars) have not been buried, all these places are cleaned during the day of Suroti and lamps are lit here at night. The right to light lamps belongs to those who worship in these places; Like Jaga Rani and Ana in Kudma, the soil of the village lights a lamp. In place of Mohada Beda, Rao Baba and Kodo, the head of the dand lights the lamp. Dand means the fields of the village are divided into two parts. All the fields on one side are called a stick. The head of each pole is the peasant head. Similarly, in Nukang Lone, Cow Kotha, Barn and Gothan, the elderly women of the house light lamps.

The tribal Muria society argues behind lighting lamps at these places that everyone considers the new moon of Deepawali as a black night. In the black night, the power of evil spirits increases and by lighting these centers of religious faith, the power of evil spirits is weakened. This is the reason that tribal society increases the power of their gods by lighting lamps in these places.

On the second day of Diwali, the tribal Muria community celebrates Diwar. Deewad is also a kind of saad (Devotsav), in which some greens and tubers are planted. On the second day of Diwali, the women of the house wrap the cow kotha (cowshed) and its front land with cow dung. A wooden pole is buried at this place. In this pole, a rope for tying cows and bulls, which is called "Dawa", is strung. The Muria tribal society calls the cow kotha (cowshed) as Dev Kotha and that pillar as "Devkhanuta. This means that he worships pets as equal to gods. In this wrapped place, the head of the house fills the chok with burnt soil (ashes of the stove), coal powder, and rice flour, this is called Bana filling and "Singar Barsana" in Gondi. The protector deities are invoked while streaking a streak from the ashes of the hearth. Invoke their family deity and isht deity with rice flour. Coal powder invokes all aquatics, landmasses and nubhacharas. These deities are duly worshiped with red, betel nut, coconut, incense and alcohol is offered.

Deewad is also a kind of Saad (Devotsav), at this time, after worshiping, the head of the house offers tamarind, kumhada, kochai (Arabic) sugar tuber, dang kand and buffalo dheti tuber to the gods coming to this place and ploughs these fruits. That is, after offering to the deities, he accepts himself. On this day, women of tribal Muria society wash their agricultural tools, bullock cart wheel etc. and wrap them with cow dung and make rice batters and make their hand raids. This is called "handing. After worshiping all these, the head of the house offers alcohol on all of them. The Muria tribal society considers all these tools as a means of earning money and worships them like Goddess Lakshmi. After this, the woman of the house makes a hand impression with rice flour solution on the wall of her house, on the wall of the cow room and on the pillar buried for worship on this day. It is considered as a good sign. Just as other societies make swastika symbols, similarly Muria tribal society makes the symbol.

On this day, new rice khichdi is made in every tribal Muria family and the fruits awakened on this day, tuber-root tamarind, kumhada, kochai, sugar tuber, dang kand, buffalo dheti tuber are cooked in it. This khichdi is called "Punang Nukang Na Sikdi". This khichdi is fed to cows and bulls. The second day of Deepawali is celebrated as Govardhan Puja in India, when the tribal Muria society worships its pets (cows and bulls. He washes their feet, garlands them with flowers, ties a new cloth to the horn of one of the animals with redness, which is then taken by the shepherd. It is a gift from the cattle. After worshiping, khichdi is fed to the cows and bulls. The tribal Muria society argues that these animals also contribute to growing this grain, when we eat new food, they also have the right to new rice. Therefore, they are also fed khichdi. After feeding khichdi to the cow-bull, all the members of the house take that khichdi as prasad.

On this day, women make toran by kneading ripe paddy earrings. It is tied at the door of the house, at the door of the room with Nukang Adka, at the door of the cow kotha (cowshed), at the door of Dev Sthan, at the door of Dev Mandir, Ana Kudma etc. It's called "Sela". The intention of tying it is that good work has been done in our house, we are ready to welcome Anna Lakshmi. On this day, tamarind and kochai are jogani. "Amat" is essentially made in every house from these two. Amat Kadhi is called. It is cooked by adding tamarind and kochai to a thin rice flour batter. Chickpeas or jhunga are also added to it. It has a tanginess and is eaten with rice. Urad is not made on this day, because at this time urad is in Marhan. This is the last day of the wall, on this day also lamps are lit at all the places, where the lamp was lit on the day of Suroti.

On this day afternoon, all the people of the village go to Ganyata's house to offer Johar. Here all the girls of the village dance. This dance is called "Deewad Endna". Endana means dance. Only girls do it. After dancing here, it is danced in all the houses of the village, then the people of the house give them money. Girls also go to other villages to dance this dance. The dancer group gets a lot of respect in another village. In the village where it is night, they are accommodated in ghotul. The girls of that ghotul cook their food and the boys are the hosts. At night, everyone dances together. How long to dance depends on the choice of the host boys. The next day the dance troupe proceeds to another village. One more thing, if a farmer in another village is left to cut paddy, then he gets the paddy harvested by this dance team. In return, paddy gives them more than their wages. These dance troupes perform Kolang dance in other villages for a month or so. This tradition does not exist in the Kanker region. In Bhanupratappur, hulki dance is performed from the small mandar.