Huge crowd in the festival "`Pahachare"

Pahachareのすんごい人

jai bhadra kali maa

If you visited Kathmandu, you were stuck in this crowd. People are celebrating the Pahachare festival.
This worships godess, Jai Bhadra Kali Maa. This is three-day-festival of the Newar community.
People invite their married daughters and sisters an friends home for a grand feast on the second and third days. The festival begins every year on the Chaitra Krishna Pakcha Chaturdashi which is second half of a lunar month. Chaitra Krishna Pakcha Chaturdash seems to be in Hindi Calendar.

Annapurnai is lost in the crowd

In the morning of the first day, they perform pujas（the act of showing reverence to a god, a spirit,  or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals） and sacrifice animals.You can see palanquins (khat) which bringing  deities dashed against each other beside the Annapurna temple. We see hardly the temple in the crowd....In the evening, idols of goddesses are taken around the city in a palanquin. People clean drains and their surroundings.

jai bhadra kali maa

昨日カトマンズに行ってたら、こんな人だかりに足止めをくらってましたよ。Pahachareのお祝いです。
女性の神様、Jai Bhadra Kali Maaのお祝いです。このネワールのお祭りは三日続きます。二日目と三日目は、お嫁に行った娘や姉妹、友人を招待して、お祝いするそうです。
お祭りは毎年太陰月の後半にあたる、 Chaitra Krishna Pakcha Chaturdashに・・って、ヒンズーのカレンダーにあるみたいです。

アンナプル寺見えない・・

初日の朝はpujasといって神々にお祈りを捧げます。それから生贄を捧げます。 山車みたいなものがも出て、アンナプル寺の横でぶつけ合います。もはやお寺見えないですけど・・。