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Kohomba Kankariya

For centuries, Kohomba kankariya was the most important ritual in Kandyan villages. Led by the yakdessas, hereditary dancer-priests of the berava drummer caste, the ceremony was performed during several days as a thanksgiving, a forgiving, or a post-harvest celebration. By the mid-1950s, however, the traditional kankariya had vanished in most areas of the Kandyan region and became a "museum piece," a national symbol of Sinhala cultural heritage. Although the Kohomba kankariya is a ritual of propitiation for the local Kandyan deities, the Kohomba gods, it is also a rite of healing, performed to restore the sense of communities, to alleviate social tensions, and to ensure the well-being and prosperity of the land and its people. Traditionally, villagers contributed with offerings of flowers, fruits, camphor, oil lamps, cloth for the canopy, and banana trunks for the altars that were erected for the gods. http://www.ethnovisions.net/EthnoVis…...