🗓️ When?
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📍 Where?
- Town
- Mokokchūng
- Region
- Nagaland
- Country
- India
- How precise?
- coordinate of the town or municipality
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
Gaan-Ngai is a festival of the Rongmei of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland states in North Eastern India. Gaan-Ngai is a festival of light, celebrating the victory of light over evil and the commemoration of the coming of light or fire. It is a post harvest festival celebrated to thank the God Tingkao Ragwang for a good harvest season and heralds the beginning of a new year. The festival is celebrated for five days with various rituals, prayers and festivities such as music, dance and feast accompanying the same.
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