Adivasi Children Perform Rituals Seeking Rain, Good Harvest in Telangana Villages
Traditional dance and rituals mark prayers for rain and a bountiful harvest in Adilabad
Adilabad: Adivasi children performed 'Budbave Persabave’ rituals for good rains and crops in the agricultural season in their villages.
In traditional attire, they went to houses as families poured water on them. The children danced to traditional songs. ‘Budbave .. Persabave’ is similar in some aspects to ‘Kappathalli Atalu’.
The children will dance, sing songs like ‘Budbave Kuhuku.. Persabave Kuhuku.. Chudurbave Kuhuku’ in villages while carrying a wooden pole to which they tie a frog and jowar grains in a white cloth as women pour water on the frog. The children will release the frog into the water body at the end of the event.
Tulasiram, former sarpanch of Vadgoan village in Indravelli mandal said Adivasis children wear bells on their bodies and carry Neem tree branches and visit households.
He said Adivasi children perform Budbave Persabave rituals on the last Amavasya in Vaishaka masam (in the month of May), which they consider as auspicious, and families give some money to children as a gift when they visit.
Tulasiram said elders forecast if the rains will be heavy, scanty or normal based on the frog jumping as it is released into a water body.
Village elders go to the forests and bring medicinal plants and yellow Rela flowers and perform special puja to celebrate the event in the evening.
Kanaka Venkatesh of Marlavai of Jainoor mandal said Adivasi children perform ‘Budbave.. Persabave’ ritual every year, wishing good rains and crops, and they have been continuing the tradition from time immemorial.
He said Adivasis worship nature and added that they prepare special dishes like ‘Minupa Garelu’, and prepare food with Navadhanaylu and offer to nature, and later the Adivasi families have their dinner.
Subsequently, the Adivasis will perform ‘Vijang Mohthur’ (Vithana Pandung) and later ‘Akadi’ festival before sowing seeds.
Adivasis celebrate their traditional festival ‘Akadi’ appeasing forest animals not to harm them and their cattle, when they enter jungles for grazing and bamboo.
The Akadi also aims to protect standing crops from forest animals and shows a strong relation between Adivasis, forests and wild animals.
Adivasi children dance in traditional attire, wearing bells on their bodies during 'Budbave Persabave' rituals in Vadgoan village of Indravelli mandal in Adilabad district on Tuesday evening.
