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20 juillet 2022
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Marc Gaborieau, « Festivals, time and space: the structure of the Indo-Nepalese version of the Hindu calendar », European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, ID : 10.4000/ebhr.437
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This article provides an interpretation of the annual cycle of festivals among the Hindus of the hills of Nepal. After recalling the main technical data of the Hindu calendar, the author develops his approach in two stages. Through an ethnographical inventory of festivals, he finds out the main divisions of the annual cycle. Using then Indian theoretical texts, he reconstructs deductively the conception of time which underlies this cycle of festivals. This sacred time is analogous to sacred space: the ‘Four Months’ of the Rainy Season (July-October), during which all important festivals take place, are like a third vertical dimension, the dimension of eternity, which brings men into contact with gods at the end of each annual cycle.