[6] The five principles are: bar (air), orr (fire), ha (earth), dwi (water) and okhrang (ether).

While the core beliefs and principles remain largely the same, certain practices and rituals have undergone changes or have been interpreted differently among various branches.

Families that follow Bathouism plant a sijou shrub at the northeast corner of their courtyard, in an altar called sijousali.

[17] The practice of representing Bathoubwrai by the sijou tree was more common among Boros (or Mech) of Goalpara region, and less so in Darrang.

Song Raja is usually represented inside the house in an altar called dham, a deity who obtains devotion from women, and receives offerings during women's menses; but these offerings are eventually brought out and laid at the sijou tree representing Bathou.

All Bathou Religious Union, an organization, was constituted in 1992 and it has begun reviving and reforming the traditional religion.

The traditional role of the Douri and Doudini are replaced by the Gwthari Asari appointed by the organization, and a band of singers who sing in a practice called bathou aroj.