Daily Archive for July 19th, 2008

Building pillar ceremony

My grandfather (a father to my mother) who passed 20 years ago was commemorated by building his tomb’s pillar. My mother, two sisters and my wife left the past day for Supuni village where the ceremony was taking place. My two brothers, father and I left for Supuni to attend that ceremony. Many relatives from various places gathered as well other people. The ceremony preparations started late in the afternoon. We all slept at the ceremony point. Women were singing cultural and traditional dances the whole night. At around 9pm, it started showering that made sleeping places difficulties due a large group of people that the available houses could not accommodate