Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses

Suwanee Goswami; Dr. Eric Soreng

Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses

June 2021

Vol-7, Issue-3

Paper ID: 14736

ISSN: 2395-4396

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Research Area

Psychology

Keywords

Bihu Festival Mythology

Abstract

The amorous dance of the Goddesses—Kolimoti, Seuti and Malati—has given birth to the Bihu festival in Assam which has instinctively ingrained the joy of dance and music in every Assamese woman and man in every form of festivities in and beyond Bohag Bihu. The mythic origin of Bohag Bihu shows diversion from the blood sacrifice to the Goddesses to the repetition of and participation in the dance of the Goddesses. In the archaic spirituality of Assam, women dance repeating the mythic acts of the Goddesses and men partake in the joy as nature blooms and humankind prosper in the amorous state of the Goddesses. The paper presents interpretation of one of the myths of the origin of the Bihu festival.

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#	Name	Institute / Affiliation
1	Suwanee Goswami	Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi
2	Dr. Eric Soreng	Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi

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Goswami, Suwanee & Soreng, Dr. Eric (2021). Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 7(3), 3161-3168.

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Goswami, Suwanee, and Dr. Eric Soreng. "Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 7, no. 3, 2021, pp. 3161-3168.

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Goswami Suwanee, Soreng Dr. Eric. Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education. 2021;7(3):3161-3168.

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Goswami, Suwanee and Dr. Eric Soreng. "Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 7, no. 3 (2021): 3161-3168.

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Goswami, Suwanee and Dr. Eric Soreng. "Bihu Festival: Dance of Goddesses." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 7, no. 3 (2021): 3161-3168.