TRIBAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH ENVIRONMENT: MESSAGE OF CONSERVATION WITH DEVOTION

Abstract [English]

Religion and cultural practices are a part of every tribal social system. Pahandi paari kupaar Lingo a religious Guru of gond tribes asserted people to protect nature and it is necessary for all tribes men because these nature is our ancestors in the form of plants and animals. In order to protect the nature he divided the clans Gotras in the name of animals and plants also declared not to kill the animals or hurt any plant of its related Gotras but can kill other symbolic animals in this way we will balance the population of animals, plants. Gond stated animals like tortoise, crocodiles, goats, tiger, Iguanas, porcupines are “TOTEM”. The Mahua trees have great importance in tribal devotion for their deities. They considered everything in nature is God that’s why tribes worship nature. Trees like salfi (palm tree) juice of this trees is called drinking bear of Bastar. Sagon trees are also had especially treated and Godly trees for them. Semal tree, under which God lingo had meditated and got knowledge. Nature is not only for worshipping but also is an inseparable and inevitable part of life and culture. Nature is a part of their life and they are the part of nature. Every festival and all rituals and rites are intervened with nature. Festivals like nukang tindana (new rice eating festival), Marka pandum (new Mango eating festival), Mahua pandum (blooming of Mahua flower celebrated as festival), Irpu pandum, pacha pandum, They celebrate their devotion of nature by singing and dancing, in each song they say about their love for it. Nature never dies as they give birth to all creatures and every creature goes back to became the part of nature again and again. Tribes are nature conserver and always work to maintain equilibrium between environment and the living beings