{"id":4317,"date":"2010-10-13T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T09:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2010-10-13T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T09:49:19","slug":"red-karen-rice-harvest-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2010\/10\/13\/red-karen-rice-harvest-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Karen rice harvest ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Preparing<\/a><\/em>
Preparing to raise the pole in memory of the first Red Karen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the beginning there was just one Red Karen, and he was only a head. He lived in a house with his grandmother, and one day when his grandmother was outside the house, the house began to take him up to Heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n

His grandmother grabbed a corner post to hold the house down, but she was left holding the one post \u2013 the rest of the house went up to Heaven. But as it went, the Red Karen said to his grandmother, \u201cIf you will remember me, I will bless your rice crop each year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So each year just before the harvest, the Red Karen people carve a post to celebrate his memory, and put it up, in order to have his blessing on their rice crop.<\/em><\/p>\n

The celebration also includes a sacrifice and much drinking. One celebration is held just before the rice harvest, and a larger one takes place after the harvest is done.<\/p>\n

And since the rice harvest is to begin next week, Julie and I got an opportunity to observe this ritual, which is probably the second-most-important one the Red Karen have, the most important one being the post-harvest ritual.<\/p>\n

See more photos of preparations for the ritual >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the beginning there was just one Red Karen, and he was only a head. He lived in a house with his grandmother, and one day when his grandmother was outside the house, the house began to take him up to Heaven. His grandmother grabbed a corner post to hold the house down, but she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1511,1262],"class_list":{"0":"post-4317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-photography","8":"tag-thailand","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}