Bonga:Every individual feels to relate with the world of reality and of course experience the transcendent life. This individual is always placed in the community where others are included in and around the world of supernatural beings. Naturally human like to have mystical experience through prayer and fasting to enter the world of spiritual beings. Santal to have relation with nature, others human being and with God who’s named completely different in their terms. There are some more heavenly beings including ancestors who has becomes Bonga, (the spirit). Santal have a web of communication which the relationship of nature, human community and super natural forces. Santal believes that these Bongas are located between the sky and the earth. Some are benevolent Bongas who are friends in day to day’s life. There are malevolent bongas too. So the fight between good and evil are there. These two forces are constantly present in the forms of Bongas. All santal strongly believe on those Bongas- benevolent and malevolent. There are different kinds of Bongas according to place and social status all are given important-in different times to worship.
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