Photo (for illustration). Budda in Nepal.
Today this ceremony goes on for the e
thnical group called the Newar!
The Newar people are the oldest subpopulation in the Kathmandu-valley. A
Newar is easily of a member of a mountaintrunk to differentiation if he loads carries.
Only Newar carry their loads with the help of a bamboo bar over the shoulder, to
whose both ends are fastened to ropes of load baskets.
According to the website Travallo Globetrotters (www.travallo.de/laender/anapurna/people.html),
the mountain trunks carry their rest in a basket on the back, the whole weight
by a front tape are held. The Newar live monogam, which in Nepal is
not natural. Their wives have the possibility of separating from
a man into simple ceremony. They return the betel nuts, which they receive
during the marriage-ceremony to their man. At the age from 7 or 8 years all
Newar girls become in the Yihee - Ceremony symbolically with God Narayan (Inkarnation
Vishnus) marries.
This embodied by a golden picture-eat. Shiva in form of a Bel - fruit is a
witness of the wedding. The Newar girls receive thus the status of a married
woman. This wedding with the inmortal God Narayan is regarded as the only right
wedding, which lasts a life long. Every other marriage with a Newar man is
easily resolvable for that. For the women also a widow burn was thus never
applicable, since with the death of the married man the real partner lived on.
She could return again to her parents' house and marry at any time from new.
The farmer women carry usually black Saris with red
boards, the men the typical cotton clothing with that above widen trousers,
which become down quite close. Around the waist it bolts a cotton cloth as belt.
The knife ' kukhri ', - as at other groups of peoples -, is not carried.
These symbolic marriages are also arranged before the girls real
adult marriages, and suppose to give them strength and protection during their
whole life.
Stein Morten Lund, 17 Februry 2004
Additional information
Brief information from the website Nepal Tour Destination: www.nepaltoursdestination.com/nepal_faq.php
Nepal is stretched along
Himalaya from Northwest to Southeast about 1600 km with
average 160 km width. Nepal is sandwiched between
India and
Tibet autonomous region of
China.
Kathmandu Valley:
Kathmandu is a capital city of
Kingdom of
Nepal . Other regal sister cities in
the valley are Lalitpur and Bhaktapur. The Kathmandu
valley (1450 M) is famous
for scenic beauty, beautiful countryside, ethnic settlements, pilgrimages of holiest shrines for
Hindus and Buddhists. There are seven World Heritage Sites declared
by the UNESCO in the Kathmandu valley (400 sq. km.)
itself. Kathmandu valley has three regal cities called Kathmandu,
Lalitpur (Patan), and Bhaktapur. These three cities used to be capital of three
Principalities in Malla dyanasty period.
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