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'''Mage Parab''' is the principal [[festival]] celebrated among the [[Ho people]] of eastern [[India]], and is also celebrated by the [[Munda people]]. It is not celebrated by any other Munda-speaking peoples like [[Juang people|Juang]], [[Gadab]] and is much less prominent to the Mundas than to the Hos.<ref name="Ghurye">{{cite book |last=Ghurye |first=Govind Sadashiv |date=1 January 1980 |title=The Scheduled Tribes of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTNmCIc9hCUC |location=New Brunswick |publisher= Transaction Publishers |page=267 |isbn= 9781412838856 }}</ref> It is held in the month of [[Mage (month)|Mage ponai]] in honor of the deity Singbonga who, in the Ho [[creation myth]], created ''Luku Kola'', the first man on Earth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avenuemail.in/region/maghe-parab-in-w-singhbhum/88040/ |title=Maghe Parab in W Singhbhum |date=28 January 2016 |website=The Avenue Mail |publisher= Vimal Agarwal |access-date=7 November 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avenuemail.in/region/mage-festival-observed/89502/ |title=Mage festival observed |date=21 February 2016 |website= The Avenue Mail |publisher= Vimal Agarwal |access-date= 7 November 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://keraientertainment.com/ |title=Ho Community, Odisha|date=2015 |website= Kerai Entertainment |access-date= 7 November 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://tribalinstincts.blogspot.co.nz/2007/03/rituals-and-festivals-of-ho-tribe-by.html |title=Rituals And Festivals Of The Ho Tribe by Basanta Kumar Mohanta |last= Mohanta |first= Basanta Kumar |date= 2 March 2007 |website=Tribal Instincts |access-date= 7 November 2017 }}</ref> It was first described in 1912 by Indian [[anthropologist]] [[Sarat Chandra Roy|Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy]] in his ''The Mundas and their Country''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Ajit K. |date= 1982 |title=Tribal Festivals of Bihar: A Functional Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvLiAsmvx6IC |location=New Delhi |publisher= Concept Publishing Company |page=18 }}</ref><br />
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[[Category:February observances]]<br />
[[Category:Annual events in India]]<br />
[[Category:Religion in Jharkhand]]<br />
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