Neel Barahi dance festival begins
The annual Neel Barahi - the ferocious form of the Goddess - dance festival has begun in Bode of Madhyapur Thimi in Bhaktapur. The festival lasts for three days and four nights. A total of 89 persons take part in the traditional dance festival. Those participating in the dance cannot eat anything or talk to anyone during the festival. Likewise they cannot use umbrellas in case of rainfall and they can”t even go to the nature’s call.
Likewise, the light and torch lit for the festival cannot be put off throughout the period.
Brahi is the most ferocious form of the Goddess with a head of an animal - Baraha.
Neel is the colour blue that is symbolic to the destruction. The Neel Barahi is thus the Goddess that protects oneself from the enemies and natural calamities.
the Goddess is more famous among the tantrick cult - a non-vedic but power cult that believes in the nature.
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