The Festival of Lights

Its season of festivals in Nepal. Just three weeks before Nepalese people celeberated their biggest festival called Dashain. Now its time for festival of light called "Tihar" in Nepali toungue. This is celeberated for five days. The first day is "Kaag Puja", means worship of Crow. The hindu religion is nature lover. We worship trees, grass, animals and statue of God. So they feed crow on the very first day "Tihar". The second day is "Kukur Puja", means worship of Dog. Dog is a faithful animal, so it is worshipped on this day. The third day is "Laxmi Puja", means worship of goddess of wealth. On this day people worship money and other properties as the symbol of Goddess Durga. They believe that the Goddess will be happy and bless with the wealth to the worshippers. The forth day is "Gai Puja or Govardhan Puja", means worship of Cow. They put garlands around the neck of cows and feed them good grass. The fifth day is the day of climax. It is called "Bhai Tika", means day that the sisters put tika in her brother's forehead.

This way we Nepalese celeberate this festival of light. From the beginning of this festival, people lit candles, lamp of oil etc to make the house bright.