Kipa Chaking and Yura Aki at Banderdewa Nyokum Lapang and Dongda Tana at Jollang celebration centres with their Bu (Assistant priests) embarked into the celebration centres to propitiate Nyokum Anne to bless the mankind with bumper agricultural produce, productivity in human resources and animal husbandry, ward off all maladies of life like disease, death, famine and calamities. To mark the start of the main celebration – 24th to 28th of February, 26th February being the date of ritual sacrifice, the Nyokum flags have been ceremoniously hoisted in all the Nyokum centres.