ジョシ祭はじまる/Zoshi started in Rumbur

  5月12日、子供たちは川原や山腹に咲くジョシ祭のシンボル花の黄色のビーシャやクルミや野生アーモンドの若葉を集める。女性たちは畑に芽をだした野草を摘む。

 その夜、広場の暗い中で青年たちが太鼓を叩き、その周りで子供らが踊る。夜中には子供らが神殿の入り口やジェシタック女神の木彫りの周囲を昼間摘んできた花や若葉で飾る。

On 12th May, children went to the riverbed or mountain to pick the bunch of flowers and leaves, symbol of Zoshi such as Bisha, Kanda and wolnuts branches. Women went to the fields for picking newly grown wild grass. This activity is a sign for starting Joshi, the Kalasha spring festival. 

 

Same night youth and children played dancing and singing along with the drums at the square of our village, Balanguru. Then next morning before the dawn, they decorated the entrance and the shelf of Jes’tak Han temple with these symbol flowers and leaves, and doorway of each house as well.