Gavri, Gavri
A primeira vez que vimos o festival, paramos para tentar perceber o que se passava. A não ser algumas coisas aqui e ali, não conseguimos que nos explicassem em língua que conhecessessemos que tipo de festival era: - Sir, Mewari dance; - They don't bath for a month; - Men dressed as women;
A internet ajudou um bocadinho:
Gauri is the ritual dance form performed by Bhil tribe in Udaipur, Rajsamand and Chittor districts of Rajasthan. It is a purely religious dance performed to appease Bhairavi, their Ishladeva, during the month of Sravan and Bhadon. The dance is based on the life of Siva and lasts from morning till evening. During the rainy season, the Bhils remain out of their homes for a month, and utilize their outing to exhibit their dancing feats which are related to the stories of 'Bhoodhia', an epithet of Siva.
Whole male folk, even children participate in this dance-drama form for forty days for healthy environment to protect their animals and people's life. In this period they will not eat any green vegetable, avoid alcohol and non-veg eating, sleep on ground floor and not to take the bath (except on Dev-Jhulani Ekadasi ). Mostly in day time they perform the Gavari in the village where they enacted different mythological and social episodes with "Madal" and thali musical instruments. In this period they traveled to nearby villages where their daughters and sisters married and perform Gavari there.















