The Poumai Naga agricultural festivities and rituals vis-a-vis folklores: Covid-19 pandemic application

Abstract

The traditional Poumai Naga People are basically agrarian and their lives revolve around it. Poumais are distributed into Paomata, Chilivai, Lepaona, and Razeba. As agrarian people they sow paddy; Daonü, Tainü, Marunü, Louka are festivals to usher the sowing of paddy. Duh is the ritual celebration for good seed. Paoki is the feast of plantation. Laonü is the post plantation festival. Nge is ritual celebration asking God to preserve the paddy from the attack of pestilence. Baoloutouyu is the prayer for abundance and eating of the first fruits. Thounü is the New Year thanksgiving celebration with abundance of food and wine. The festivals and rituals that preserve a community act as a deterrent to exceptional events like the Pandemic in the community history is a subterranean argument in the paper.