Teej

Parvati's monsoon festivals for women: Hariyali Teej in Shravan, Kajari and Hartalika Teej in Bhadrapada. They celebrate her acceptance by Shiva after long austerity and, in the Hartalika telling, her friends carrying her off to escape a marriage to Vishnu arranged by her father. Swings, henna, green clothes, the Jaipur Teej Mata procession, and waterless fasts in red in Nepal.