{"id":1402,"date":"2008-06-23T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2008-06-23T20:24:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:24:46","slug":"the-traditional-ginani-festival-celebrated-in-hunza-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2008\/06\/23\/the-traditional-ginani-festival-celebrated-in-hunza-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The traditional Ginani festival celebrated in Hunza valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ginani4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1414\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ginani4.jpg?resize=369%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;color:windowtext;\">A <em>bitan <\/em>(shaman) went into trance at a <em>Ginani <\/em>Festival in Karimabad to communicate with the fairies (Lorimer collection 1923)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><strong>by: Zulfiqar Ali Khan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><strong>Hunza, June 23:<\/strong> The traditional \u201c<em>Ginani\u2019\u2019<\/em> festival has been celebrated in Central and Lower parts of Hunza valley, with traditional zeal and fervour.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Main gatherings were organised in Altit and Aliabad villages. The local community has performed rituals at central places and also performed traditional dances on local tunes. Special traditional dish locally known as <em>Dirum Pitti<\/em> has been prepared to mark the festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Before the construction of KKH, the local community was totally dependant on subsistence farming and during the winter seasons most of the families were also facing shortages of foods.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This festival was thus celebrated to mark the beginning of new harvesting season. During the time, when Hunza was an independent principality, these rituals were performed at royal courtyard. This event is called <em>Ginani<\/em> and <em>Chineer <\/em>in Hunza, <em>Strublah<\/em> in Baltistan and <em>Ganoni<\/em> in Gilgit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A bitan (shaman) went into trance at a Ginani Festival in Karimabad to communicate with the fairies (Lorimer collection 1923) by: Zulfiqar Ali Khan Hunza, June 23: The traditional \u201cGinani\u2019\u2019 festival has been celebrated in Central and Lower parts of Hunza valley, with traditional zeal and fervour.\u00a0 Main gatherings were organised in Altit and Aliabad &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[4781],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}