Gakpai as part of Gaan-Ngai celebration at Keishamthong Kabui Khul , Imphal on 03 January 2015
Keishamthong Kabui Khul gi Chaakan Gaan Nagi 2015 houdokpagi thouram da Khul adu gi Khullakpa amadi Ahal aman singna Oak (Pig) ki spleen (Gakpai in Rongmei Language) louthoklaga lak kadouriba chahi adugi apha phatta yangliba.
Gaan-Ngai the biggest festival of Zeliangrong is celebrated for about 5 days starting from January 13th 2014. It is celebrated with cultural gusto and religious fervour.
Gaan Ngai is a post harvest festival. At this time the granaries are full, the landscape is dry, the whole village is free from all agricultural works, people turn to celebration, festivity and worship of God and honouring of the dead. Gaan-Ngai is dynamic in that it is not centred on the living only but the dead too are given due honour in the form of ritual farewell. Extracting of Sacred Fire, honoing(an invocation to God) and offering of holy wine to God and deities besides cultural extraganza dance, musical recital and folk songs are inseparable parts of Gaan-Ngai.
Read all about Gaan Ngai here.
Picture Credit :: Deepak Oinam