Living Traditions
Ceremonies the calendar still keeps.
Aoling at the first rain. Myoko among the Apatani at the turn of spring. Hornbill in the cold light of December. These are not performances — they are the year, remembered out loud.
Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh
Myoko — Among the Apatani
Annual · March
Myoko is the Apatani festival of friendship and fertility, rotating each year between three clusters of villages in the Ziro plateau. It is one of the oldest continuous ceremonies in the Eastern Himalaya.
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