Could you please tell me about a Hindu festival by Raksha Bandhan and explain why & how it is to be celebrated to make the children not only enjoy but understand the significance also?
Millennia ago men stopped keeping the festivals of God and developed systems of worship. The systems laid down by God were beneficial and men required these periods for rest and spiritual regeneration. When the Aryans invaded India ca 1000 BCE they brought with them a structure of the explanation of creation based on the worship in the Middle East and established there a Sanskrit system based on the ancient Semitic or Chaldean languages. The ancient figures in ancestral traditions became God through ancestor worship. Sheba or Shiva became the Hindu God. Noah or Nu became Seri Nu the God of money or wealth. The Nephilim became the Raksasas. From this view, cults of the fallen host or demons, the female demons the Rakshanis were developed. Initially they were female demons and spirits of the wood. Then, and as batal, there were akin to the yoginis or rock spirits in animism as were the banasats. Chungu is another tree demon from the more primitive tribes in Indian animism. The festivals
