"Yomari Punhi : The True Insight Of Nepali Culture"

bindu (58)in #culturevulture • 7 years ago

Yomari is a type of Newari food, and Punhi means full moon. Yamari Punhi is a festival celebrated in full moon day by making, eating and distributing yamari.

This festival is very popular in Kathmandu valley. Yomari means tasty bread. Yomari punhi is a Newari festival marking the end of the rice harvest.

Yomari literally translates into “Tasty Bread”. It is a confection of newly harvested rice flour dough shaped like fig, and filled with sesame seeds and brown cane sugar, which is steamed later. People believe that Yomari takes away the cold. Also it is said that the longer the Yomari’s tail is, the shorter the winter is.

In some places, like Hari Siddhi and Thecho, sacred masked dances are performed. The News community also prepares Yomari in shape of different dieties (e.g. Laxmi, Kuber, Ganesh, etc.)

They do this as a symbol of devotion to their dieties. Moreover, by offering Yomari, parents bless their children with good health and longevity.

yomari As the myth describes, this festival started from Paanchal Nagar, now known as Panauti. It is said that Suchandra and Krita, a married couple, experimented with the freshly harvested rice.

They offered the dish to Kuber, God of Wealth who happened to pass by. Impressed by the dish, Kuber blessed the couple with wealth.

Kuber also asserted that whoever made the delicacy in the form Gods and Goddesses to show their devotion would be bestowed upon by wealth. The entire village happened to like the bread, thus named, ‘Yomari’ (tasty bread).

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@bindu

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