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that when Hilo is chanted, individual family/ or clan sacrifice Mithun(Buffalo)to king of the Evil Spirit. And they believe that Si(Earth) and Donyi(Sun) are the
Goddess and God of the people and so both Si-Donyi and Hillo have huge different with each other. So they celebrate Si-Donyi is the form of Festival since year 1975. They also strongly emotionally attach with the original founder members of the Festival and believe that history of the Festival may dilute due to renaming. On the other hand TSC (Tagin Cultural Society) and some members of Organizing committee of 2024 Si-Donyi Festival thought that suffixing Hilo word is necessary for the Si-Donyi Festival i.e Si-Donyi Hilo Festival. They believe that Hilo is local language of Festival. Also some of they believed that Hilo means Chief (above all).
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Festival is that Word 'Hilo' is added to the existed name of the Festival i.e Si-Donyi Hilo. That leading wide controversy among the Tagin tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. Some people of the tribe are opposing the naming Modified version of the Festival. They believe
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Nibu or the local priest presides over the festival by chanting UI (a form of verbal prayers) to the deities, Si and Donyi in particular. For the prosperity of entire community, to stop malevolent spirits from creating destruction towards the people of community and to ask permission for quality
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community present there. The festival was first conceptualised in the year 1975 by Late Tatar Uli, who was the main pioneer in inception of Si-Donyi uyu. The other members who bore the responsibilities were Late Tadak Dulom and Popak Bage. The festival was celebrated in the same year under their
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Another key component is dancing; dances such as
Chungne, Konyi Bokar, Riabu, and Takar Ghene are performed by the groups of men and women in their traditional attires and ornaments. While older male perform Hoyi Penam which is a specially performed to welcome the spirits.
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