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By
official record of the government we are Hindus. We observe some
of the major festivals of Hindu religion such as Dashain and Tihar.
However, our main religion is shamanism and animism according
to our history.
We
still observe many shamanistics and animistic practices, and shamans
are our traditional doctors and healers. We must ask them for
help when we become sick because we don't have any medical clinics
in our village. Some of the shamans use some herbs but most of
them perform rituals to heal our illness. Shamans ask us to sacrifice
animals to different local deities to be cured from illness.
We worship many
local gods in our village. This is related to animism. We have
goddess of the forest, god of the cliff, god of the cave, god
of the spring, goddess of illness and many others. However, our
main god is Karpakeli, the ancestral god of our tribe.
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