They perform the puja strewing leaves, flower petals in a traditional way. What the meaning of this combination is could not be clarified. Finally a dumar branch is brought and stuck into the earth. It is clearly forked at the top and at both twigs leaves are left naturally. Its bent upper part is directed towards the rice bundle.
Contact seems to be intended at the top.
The rice bundle is then covered with white cloth and thus becomes sacred, the Lakshmi deity . About in the middle of its height it is decorated with a flowerlike circular form tressed with fresh yellow palm leaves. The same but slightly smaller decoration is fixed to the dumar branch about 20 cm above ground. The cloth of the Lakshmi deity, as well as the flowerlike decorations are then coloured with intensive red powder. The same flowerlike decoration is then fixed on the front of the priest's and priestess' head.