Mage Parab

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Mage Parab is the principal festival celebrated among the Ho people of eastern India, and is also celebrated by the Munda people. It is not celebrated by any other Munda-speaking peoples like Juang, Gadab and is much less prominent to the Mundas than to the Hos.[1] It is held in the month of Mage ponai in honor of the deity Singbonga who, in the Ho creation myth, created Luku Kola, the first man on Earth.[2][3][4][5] It was first described in 1912 by Indian anthropologist Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy in his The Mundas and their Country.[6]

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  1. Ghurye, Govind Sadashiv (1 January 1980). The Scheduled Tribes of India. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. p. 267. ISBN 9781412838856.
  2. "Maghe Parab in W Singhbhum". The Avenue Mail. Vimal Agarwal. 28 January 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. "Mage festival observed". The Avenue Mail. Vimal Agarwal. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  4. "Ho Community, Odisha". Kerai Entertainment. 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  5. Mohanta, Basanta Kumar (2 March 2007). "Rituals And Festivals Of The Ho Tribe by Basanta Kumar Mohanta". Tribal Instincts. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  6. Singh, Ajit K. (1982). Tribal Festivals of Bihar: A Functional Analysis. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. p. 18.