The Remainder of the Yearly Calendrical Cycle [66-79]
There is one more calendrical event during this fortnight. This is Dhala(n) Sala(n) [66], which may optionally be observed on either the ninth day of the fortnight or the fifteenth, the new-moon day. This is a day for one of the ceremonies in the long sequence following death (app. 6). The ceremony is for the "pitr s[*] ," in this case all deceased ancestors of a phuki group who have been dead for more than two years, and the ceremonies are performed ideally at the riverside by large groups of associated phuki members. Occasionally phuki members conduct a continuous series of sraddha[*] procedures on sixteen consecutive days, starting with the day on which they do the Dhala(n) Sala(n) ceremony. (Moderate.)
The first ten days of the next fortnight, the waxing fortnight of Kaulathwa (September/October), is the period of the focal autumnal rice harvest festival Mohani [67-76], which will be discussed in the presentation of the Devi cycle in chapter 16. During the last three days of the final fortnight of the lunar year, Kaulaga, three events take place which are the three introductory days of the Swanti sequence [77, 78, 79], which culminate and begin anew the lunar year, and which were described at the beginning of this chapter.