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Thali (meaning "plate" or "tray") or Bhojanam (meaning "full meal") is a round platter used to serve food in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. Thali is also used to refer to an Indian-style meal made up of a selection of various dishes which are served on a platter. [1] Thali is also used in south Asia for ceremonial purposes.
The culture of South Asia, also known as Desi culture, is a mixture of several cultures in and around the Indian subcontinent. Ancient South Asian culture was primarily based in Hinduism , which itself formed as a mixture of Vedic religion and indigenous traditions (like Dravidian folk religion ), and later Buddhist influences. [ 1 ]
A traditional Nambudiri Mana. 1883 sketch depicting a Nambūdiri man with the traditional pūrvaśikhā, or forelock. The Nambudiri (Malayalam pronunciation: [n̪ɐmbuːd̪iɾi]), also transliterated as Nampoothiri, Nambūdiri, Namboodiri, Namboothiri and Nampūtiri, are a Malayali Brahmin caste, native to what is now the state of Kerala, India, where they constituted part of the traditional ...
Guardian angels of people often include ancestors or angelic-beings who arrive at various points in life, better known as thewada. Malevolent spirits ( phi phetu ) include those khwan of people who were bad in past lives or died of tragic deaths, such as the ghastly phi pob (ຜີປອບ, ผีปอบ) and the vampirical phi dip ...
Family members thus take shifts to watch over a relative on their deathbed. [12] It is common to place a white banner over the door of the household to signify that a death has occurred. Families will usually gather to carry out funeral rituals, in order both to show respect for the dead and to strengthen the bonds of the kin group.
Day of the Dead originates from rituals practiced by Indigenous people in the Americas, most notably the Aztecs. The Aztecs had a ritual known as Miccaihuitl, which was a time to honor the dead.
Hmong people have a culture built on animistic beliefs and a strong faith that after death the soul reincarnates as one of many forms such as humans, plants, rocks and ghosts (Goetz par. 1, 12). Death is often considered the most important time for practicing rituals in the Hmong community because without practicing the necessary rituals the ...
Asian Folklore Studies. Vol XLVII Brown University, Providence RI, 1989; Suthon Sukphisit, Folk Arts and Folk Culture: The Vanishing Face of Thailand. Post Books, 1997. ISBN 978-974-202-027-9. Pornpimol Senawong, Thai Ties: Social Customs and Cultural Traits That Ties All Thais Together. Samaphan Publishing Co, 2006, ISBN 978-974-641-147-9.