Lakhey Dance is Nepali community’s famous dance. Lakhey is regarded as a legendary devil who, by chasing away other devils, kept his domain. According to the legend, Lakhey punishes him who infringes his domain. This dance is conducted every year in the month of September during the Indra Jatra festival that falls. We members exercise a lot for the performance of this masked dance that very day. We collect charity on Indra Jatra’s day by displaying this dance. We sometimes struggle to keep God. But it doesn’t last long very often and so we appreciate the Jatra.
Mythology
A lakhey is expected to have fallen in love with a Majipa girl, according to tales passed down the generations. So, the demon takes the form of a human being and goes into town to see his beloved. When individuals know that the individual is a lakhey, they catch the lakhey and present him to the king. The king offers the demon that if he vows to maintain the kids from other demons and engage in the annual Yanyaa Punhi Jatra (also called Indra Jatra), he will give him a position in the town. Since then, the lakhey agrees and is to live in Majipa.
Another tale links lakhey to banishing the king’s two cannibal kids named Sawan Bhaku after Akash Bhairabh and Hanuman asked him to do so. However, on Yanyaa Punhi, the two kids return to the town claiming their rule and devoring people. Lakhey should send them out of town. This is depicted symbolically in a dance performed every year in Yanyaa Punhi.
