Rondok Puja
The deities of the Jamatias generally associated with the land and agriculture. The nature deities who preside over the paddy and cotton of the hilly region are worshipped as MAYLWNGMA and KHULWNGMA. So that there will be no crisis of fooding and clothing. Beside this animistic belief, the traces of animatisms are also related to the worship of these deities. The most notable fact is that the deities cited above have no specific form or shape. The symbols of the deities are peculier; two earthen pots contained with newly un-dried rice are decorated with the rice powder and vermillion on the tops of which some pebbles are kept. And the garlands of cotton thread are fastened to them while these are placed in a house. These two earthen pots are called RONDOK which seem to be appeared as the symbolic representations of both the deities. This ritual is observed twice in a year viz, before the Garia Puja and on the newly rice eating festival,MWYTANMWNG OR TWYMANKERMWNG PUJA.
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