Gatha Muga: Ca:re [45] (Devi Cycle)

This is the only festival in the waning fortnight of Dillaga, in July. It takes place on the fourteenth, the ca:re , and it is a major event in the phase of the Devi cycle characterized by the absence from Bhaktapur of the protective Nine^[*] Durgas. Gatha Muga: Ca:re takes place when the rice plants have, ideally, been transplanted into the paddy fields. It is the culmination of a period of conventional shouting of obscenities, culminating in the chasing of effigies of demons out of the city where they are cremated. It is the last event in the Devi cycle before the focal Mohani harvest festival [67-76]. (Major.)