02/12/2025
“Yomari Punhi: Festival of harvest,gratitude and hope for a bountiful future"
Yomari Punhi is a major festival celebrated by the Newar community in Bhaktapur, Nepal. It marks the end of the rice harvest season and is observed on the full moon day of Thinlã (the second month of the Nepali lunar calendar, usually in December).
Yomari Punhi symbolizes the new harvest by celebrating the culmination of the rice harvest season. The festival features Yomari, a delicacy made from rice flour derived from the newly harvested rice, filled with sweet ingredients like brown cane sugar and sesame seeds. This dish is offered to Annapurna, the goddess of grains, as a gesture of gratitude for the bountiful harvest. The preparation and consumption of Yomari during this festival reinforce the connection between the community's agricultural practices and their cultural traditions, marking a time of abundance and thanksgiving.
The Yomari shape is believed to take away the cold, and the longer the tail, the shorter the winter will be.
Children sing a traditional song as they go from house to house asking for Yomari:
योमरी च्वामु उकी दुने हाकु ।
ब्युसा ल्यासे मब्युस बुढी कुटी ।
People prepare Yomari in various shapes, including gods and goddesses like Laxmi, Ganesh, Kubera, and Saraswati, and place them in a huge grain basket known as “Silo” as a tribute to the gods.
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