Gatherings are both religious festivals and communal feasts.
During these ceremonies, communal feasts often took place, where food was eaten and offered to the gods.
Meats of the animals and birds killed are consume in a communal feast on the very day.
There followed a communal feast and hymns in praise of Terminus.
Many of these native practises remain including animal sacrifices, ostentatious funeral rites and huge communal feasts.
The festival ends with a large communal feast.
Selametan is a communal feast from Java, representing the social unity of those participating in it.
Though communal feasts were frequent, and often two families shared a meal, especially if they were related, Mog-ur seldom invited others to his fire.
This initial part of the ceremony, often conducted outdoors, is followed by a communal feast, typically indoors.
Dances, communal feasts and merrymaking are arranged by the people associated with the temple.