To prepare for the worship burn, burn all the steps to prepare: to reclaim, burning, tillage ... After preparing the above steps completed, the villagers prepare rice gods and worshiping other gods, including the god wind, offering rake grass, rice sowing festival for the whole village, the rain ceremony. The purpose of the ritual is the gods bless good weather, bumper harvests are economic development, life is prosperous and happy.
The wind is expected sacrificial storm thunderstorm (gifts: 1 brew, 1 pig, 1 tubes of rice). Grass rake offerings: Worshipping before planting, in water berths, demand good weather, shifting less grass, corn fresh rice. Shaman holding rake grass rake several times symbolizes farming season started (gifts: 1 and 1 pig brew).
In paddy sowing ceremony for trafficking: people building 2 towers where previously sacrificial ceremony wind, with wishes: "I hope drizzle enough water, no showers wish Ray" (offerings: seven jars of wine, 1 pigs, chickens 8 (1 chicken white)). Worshiping in the house: 1 set of gongs, jars of wine and put enough 7 animals ready to offer to the gods. Outdoors offerings include: 1 cabin with 3 sheaves containing the soil (rice spirit shown in the land), Rice huts in the Spirit (Yang Bao), with 2 couples statues symbolizing gods guarding the fields, located less than 1 hut cruel gods tied to the column implied to not be disruptive).
In addition, external materials wholesale offerings: 1 plugged honeycomb trees, many fake animals (deer, wild boar, porcupines, mice, squirrels ...), brui (rice flower symbolizes), true seeds (corn rice , pumpkin seeds, elect ... are mixed together), prick holes in trees, bamboo tube containing seeds for sowing rice, animal traps, pest prevention ...
Seed offerings (Tring mjel) demand for grain to them; in addition to the labor scene replayed production, creating lush rain for crops and set traps to avoid vandalism and interesting to ask the gods for small animals do not (birds, squirrels, rats) damage rice are developing rapidly sprouting green. Seeds including: rice, corn, pumpkin, gourd (gifts: 4 jars of wine, 4 chickens. Apply a small mound, 1 bowl of blood, 1 brui (rice flower symbolizes). Worshipping god Land (feast animals: 1 brew, 1 chicken, 1 pig's blood bowl), offered to homeowners and the community.
After finishing the outdoor offerings, beat gongs home inviting dining god then people turn to eat. Then continue worshiping sent thunder god and chased back to his place. Until rice is about to flourish, all the preparation burn offerings. Bridge flowering rice grains are long, high yield.
Homeowners choose a round mound of dust between upland rice, plug a small bamboo between the soil, the rice represents. This feast offered to the gods: the mountain god, the god of rice, people have died. When to harvest rice, all prepared to sacrifice agriculture threshing season and new eating ritual, consists of 2 parts: the new rice offering ceremony at the beginning of the nine, the plucking up a bearer brought cultivation, drying retired cook offerings. Reported relatives have visited the owner.
In addition, on the streets to burn, people flock weights rain god offerings. Worship threshing season: full bridge bồ rice, good health and prosperity, happiness. Before plucking, home visits and field, to the best rice corner, bloomers 7 tops the rice basket facing upwards. This clump of plants used as items in the closing ceremony barn. New meal time lasted until the threshing of grain out in the fields.
After harvested rice home, all the organized ritual upland rice soul warehouse storage: May eat much, much surplus, the surplus assets to sell to shop for family enrichment. This is reinforced ceremony rice soul do not keep out of storage, the new rice warehouse is full.
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