Po:rag is the post-harvest festival of the Missing people. It is celebrated once in two/three years after the winter harvest. The elderly people of the village pray to the Almighty and the ancestors for prosperity. A communal feast is held serving pork and plenty of p:ro apong.
Po:rag is also associated with agriculture. This festival celebrates with time feasting and prayers with rice on harvest day. The murang (dormitory) is essential for the performance of po:rag. A murang is built before the festival. whose platform is 4 feet above the ground. The festival lasts for three days and concludes with a prayer dance (panu-nunam). Porag, also known as Narasimha Bihu, is a five-day post-harvest festival celebrated by the Missing people of Assam.Drummers and dancers from a village are invited to perform in a nearby village. It is a festival of song and dance.
The festival is usually celebrated by Miri youth after the harvest to appease the supposed Almighty, Mother Earth and their ancestors and to seek blessings from them. Both young children dressed in traditional costumes participate in the singing. The songs are based on agriculture and the dances are typical imitations of agricultural dance poses. A unique feature of the festival is that invitations are issued to all women in the village who are married to men living elsewhere. Prominent people from neighboring villages and local dignitaries are also invited to join the festival. The celebration usually lasts three days amid feasting, singing and dancing.
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