The gods are installed in the wall by means of colourful paintings which represent the tribals’ entire cosmos and their myth of creation. Through an invocation ceremony, at which offerings of food are made, the deities are invited to descend into the painting and dwell therein.
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- Parallel Structures: Ritual Dimensions of Some Tribal Dwellings." In Vistāra - The Architecture of India, Catalogue of the Exhibition, edited by Carmen Kagal, 120-126. The Festival of India, 1986. "