Mage Parab
{{Short description|Principal festival celebrated among the Ho people of eastern India}}
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Mage Parab (or Mage Porob) is the principal festival celebrated among the Ho people of eastern India, and is also celebrated by the Munda and Bhumij people. It is not celebrated by any other Munda-speaking peoples like Juang, Gadab and is much less prominent to the Mundas (including Bhumijs) than to the Hos.{{cite book |last=Ghurye |first=Govind Sadashiv |date=1 January 1980 |title=The Scheduled Tribes of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTNmCIc9hCUC |location=New Brunswick |publisher= Transaction Publishers |page=267 |isbn= 9781412838856 }} It is held in the month of Mage ponai (Magh month) in honor of the deity Singbonga who, in the Ho creation myth, created Luku Kola, the first man on Earth.{{cite web |url=https://www.avenuemail.in/region/maghe-parab-in-w-singhbhum/88040/ |title=Maghe Parab in W Singhbhum |date=28 January 2016 |website=The Avenue Mail |publisher= Vimal Agarwal |access-date=7 November 2017 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.avenuemail.in/region/mage-festival-observed/89502/ |title=Mage festival observed |date=21 February 2016 |website= The Avenue Mail |publisher= Vimal Agarwal |access-date= 7 November 2017 }}{{cite web |url= http://keraientertainment.com/ |title=Ho Community, Odisha|date=2015 |website= Kerai Entertainment |access-date= 7 November 2017 }}{{cite web |url= http://tribalinstincts.blogspot.co.nz/2007/03/rituals-and-festivals-of-ho-tribe-by.html |title=Rituals And Festivals Of The Ho Tribe by Basanta Kumar Mohanta |last= Mohanta |first= Basanta Kumar |date= 2 March 2007 |website=Tribal Instincts |access-date= 7 November 2017 }} It was first described in 1912 by Indian anthropologist Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy in his The Mundas and their Country.{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Ajit K. |date= 1982 |title=Tribal Festivals of Bihar: A Functional Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvLiAsmvx6IC |location=New Delhi |publisher= Concept Publishing Company |page=18 }} Locally, It is also called Magh Porob in some tribal villages.