Mim Kut

The Mim Kut is a festival of the Zo People, of India and Burma. It is usually celebrated during the months of August and September, job's tears and millets.[1]

Origin and History

Mim Kut is regarded as the oldest festival of the Zo People, it was a ceremony organized for the dead.[2] Feasting is a part of it but there is hardly any fun and gaiety in it. Mim means Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi), also known as adlay or adlay millet which was introduced much later). It was held in memory of the deceased.[3]

Celebration

Mim Kut is celebrated with great fanfare by (illegally also legally) drinking rice-beer, singing, and feasting but without gaiety. Samples of the year's harvests are consecrated to the departed souls of the community. As Mim Kut is a period for lamentation, it is also known as Tah Kut, which means ‘festival of weeping’


References
  1. Barthakur, Dilip Ranjan (2003). The Music And Musical Instruments Of North Eastern India. Mittal Publications. p. 55. ISBN 978-81-7099-881-5. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  2. Neihsial; Tualchin (1993). History and Culture of the Zoumis. Manipur University. pp. 195–196.
  3. "OVERVIEW OF MIZO FESTIVALS AND CEREMONIES" (PDF). shodhganga. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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