PAGEANT OF GODDESS 'LUTI AJIMA'.
This pageant belongs to Goddess Luti Ajima gathering & procuring all of her children in company and her children left behind on different places at the way back from maternal home.
It is celebrated on Balachaturdashi (date based on lunar calender of Newars) with the ritual Burnt-offering sacrificing different species of animals, birds and reptiles in the mid-night at the temple arena.
Next day all the six wooden litters with the idol of goddess Ajima and her children from different temples carried up and gathered at Thahity of Kathmandu. By the early morning people came to visit, see and worship goddess Ajima with her sons and daughters at Thahity where by noon all the litters carried up to contemplate the residence of all the childrens belonging to goddess Ajima and by evening once again all the litters gathered at Thahity and returned back to their own temples.
SOME PICS FROM THE PAGEANT;
