Magh Bihu remains primarily a harvest festival - a folk tradition that is secular and dear to every Axomiya’s heart.
A few days into January, when the world would still be reminiscing about its New Year celebrations, and the hearth would still be alive with the last few embers, glowing to keep us warm in the winter evenings, it would be time again for yet another celebration: Makar Sankranti. Makar Sankranti or winter solstice marks the holy transition of the sun’s southward journey (Dakshinayan) to its northward journey (Uttarayan). This Sankranti is considered auspicious in Hindu theology and signifies the end of winter and beginning of the phase of the summer sun which is so vital to the agrarian community.
In Assam, this much-awaited festival which almost always falls on 13th and 14th January every year is known as Magh Bihu or Bhogali Bihu and also as Maghor dumahi in Lower Assam.
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