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Frog Wedding for Rainfall: Assam


Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Here Frog weddings were celebrated by the Rongdoi village in Jorhat district to please the Hindu Rain God Barun where hundreds of villages traditional, young, and old, boys and girls gathered at Rongdoi village communal hall till late at dark to eyewitness the unconventional marriage Frog marriage. 



There is a mythological belief that if wild frogs caught by people are married off with Vedic rites and traditional marriage ceremonies like human beings, it can help bring rainfall in the coming days.


“It was said that there was a poem by ancestors
which states that the farmers pray the clouds
and asks them as to why there is no rain.
The cloud replies that if frog don’t croak then why will I rain”. WOW!


There is a trust that when a frog marriage is performed, the Barun Devata the rain-god is happy and brings rain. Since, there has been no rain for the past couple of weeks, villagers of Rongdoi have performed the frog marriage to appeal the Barun Devata and expecting the rain to come very soon.

Comments

  1. Shanawaz Shaikh17 March 2018 at 23:06

    Nice one

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  2. Anonymous18 March 2018 at 00:37

    Interesting India..proud to be indian

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  3. Anonymous21 March 2018 at 23:54

    Interesting facts... Couldn't believe this happens in India��

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  4. yashika14 April 2021 at 02:57

    Any idea how to reach such place and people?

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