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sukrunye-a festival of chakhesang Naga tribe
The Festivals of Chakhesang Tribe The Chakhesang community celebrates seven festivals in a year as shown below; 1. SÜHKRÜHNYE -15 January 2. NGUNYE -1 February 3. TSAKRONYE -1st Sunday of March 4. TÜKHANYE/TSÜKHENYIE -6 May 5. KHUTHONYE -15 July 6. THURINYE/KHILUVATÜ -1 December SÜHKRÜHNYE SÜHKRÜHNYE is the most important festival and is celebrated on 15th January. During this festival the boys and girls are sanctified through religious ceremonies and rituals. As a matter of fact, SÜHKRÜHNYE covers eleven days starting from ‘NYEDE’ and within five days including ‘NYEDE’ necessary preparations are made for the rest of six days of festivity period. The first days of the festivity period is known as ‘CEDÜ’. On this very day animals are killed and every household sprinkles the blood of the killed animals on the main post of the house. The first fetched out SÜHKRÜHNYE wine is offered to the deities of banana leaf tumblers and the cooked meat and rice-bear are offered to the High-Priest and Priests of the village in expectation of blessings. The second day is ‘SÜHKRÜH’ mean for men folk. ‘SÜHKRÜH’ signifies sanctification of young, innocent and unspoiled boys for this ritualistic ceremony. On this day every man is supposed to take a fresh water bath and are forbidden to use water fetched by women. To perform this ritualistic ceremony (SÜHKRÜH) everything is new including utensils and fireplace. The men folk go to the well early in the morning before any animals and bird touches or partakes of the water and take a fresh water bath immediately after the first crow of the cock which indicates the breaking of the new day, in order to sanctify themselves. Thereafter, the unpolluted water, considered to be holy, is brought home, fire is made out of the fire making method and unblemished cock is killed and cooked with the holy water and eat it to sanctify the boy/boys for the rest of their lives. Even when a new house is constructed ‘SÜHKRÜH’ is performed in order to get his house sanctified. This whole process is called ‘SÜHKRÜH’ and ‘NYE’ is known as festival. On this day the entire men folk go for community bird-trapping. The collected birds are hung on a decorated tip of a tall bamboo as a symbol of SÜHKRÜHNYE. Different kinds of birds so caught are believed to foretell the fortunes for the forthcoming days of the year of the concerned individual. The third day is called ‘THÜNO NUSO’ which is mean for women only. The mother perform this ceremonial ritual to sanctify her young innocent daughter/daughters. ‘THÜNO NUSO’ is much simpler than that of ‘SÜHKRÜH’ They prepare unblemished young hen and eat to sanctify themselves for their entire lives. The forth days is known as ‘MÜTHI CELHÜ’ where social feasts such as MÜLELHÜ or feast of social age groups, ZHOTHO MUZA (Feast of merit), etc. begins. This day is set aside from religious restrictions. The fifth days is known as ‘CEDÜ ZHONGU’ which means accomplishment of the festivals. The sixth and the last day is known as ‘THÜNYE MÜKRA’. Now that the festival’s religious pursuits are relaxed, to make the last of ‘SÜHKRÜHNYE’ they continue feasting, dancing and singing throughout the day and night till dawn. With the coming of the Christianity, ‘SÜHKRÜHNYE’s religious and traditional ceremonies and rituals are no longer in practice in most of the villages. However, ‘SÜHKRÜHNYE’ is still celebrated with great significance and enthusiasms mostly by the Chokris in Phek district. During this traditional festival the indigenous games, folk songs, folk dance and sports fully occupy the festive period of sixth days starting from 15th January in keeping with Christian spirit. SÜHKRÜHNYE being a festival of sanctification, it is also marked as Christian’s Day. Water baptism can take place on this occasion. SÜHKRÜHNYE is a time of joyful celebration and so people do anticipate and yearn for the next to come. TSÜKHENYIE The TSÜKHENYIE festival is also an important festival for the Chakhesang. Earlier itThe word "SUKRU" implies sanctification of father by performing the following ritualistic ceremony-During the ritualistic ceremony everything new is used including utensils and hearth with three logs of one and half feet grid and 2 ft in length. The men are forbidden to use water fetched by women. The men folk go to the village well early in the morning before any animal or bird touches the water and take a fresh water bath.

After sanctifying themselves ,the unpolluted water is brought home, a fire is lit by the traditional fire making method and an unblemished cock is killed, cooked with the holy water and eaten to sanctify the boys for the rest of their lives. Sukru rituals are also performed when a new house is constructed .The word "NYE" means festival. The entire men folk go for the community bird-catching and snaring, which are later hung on the decorated tip of a tall bamboo. The different kinds of birds and snares caught foretell the fortune of a person's future. The fifth day of the Sukrunye is called Chedi. On this day animals are killed and every household smears the blood of the animals on the post of the house. The first fetched out cooked meat and hezo(rice-beer) are offered to the high Priest and elders of the village. In return the givers are ceremoniously blessed by an act of libation.

The 'Thuno Nuso' ritual is only meant for the women folk. The mother performs this ceremonial ritual to sanctify her young virgin daughter. They kill an unblemished young hen and it is partaken to sanctify themselves for their entire lives.

During this festival the young men and women dance and sing together drinking Hezo. Traditional games and sports like wrestling, music competition, Top fights,

Thuluva(played with a wild ball fruit) Tsuphre-stone throwing competition (long stones weighing 50 to 100 kgs) are organised by different age groups. Highly restricted genna is observed on the last day of Sukrunye with thanks giving to the deities for seeking good fortune and blessings. Vekutho swuro (talk) 10:42, 10 August 2017 (UTC)