[Leica] Temple Festival

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Nathan,
I think all major religions have such congregations with a leg firmly
planted 500-600 years ago - it must have been mystical and powerful in
medieval times.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> Those were my thoughts as well, Jayanand. I have been in Seville during the
> Easter Week and the Rocio, and your pictures made me think of those events.
> Every Spanish city has a Semana Santa celebration, but the one in Seville 
> is
> bigger and better than anywhere else.
>
> I love Ric's idea of collaborating to make a book.
>
> Here are some pics from Seville's 2004 Semana Santa:
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla/semanasanta/
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
> On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
>
> > Jayanand,
> >
> > I've really enjoyed your pictures, all are very good, Piety is my
> favorite. I have not look at the map, Chennai is the South of India?.
> >
> > What I find very interesting too is that this tradition looks to me very
> similar to Andalousian "El Rocio", the people is really devote to la 
> "virgen
> del Rocio" and they do similar things, they go in procession with a figure
> and approach the children to touch the statue.
> >
> > Look at this (avoid the adds)
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0--mCKC_DU
> >
> > I want remain respectuous, but is quite crazy for me
> >
> > cheers
> > Lluis
> >
> >
> > El 28/03/2011, a las 14:55, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:
> >
> >> Once a year, the 63 deities in the Kapaleshwar Temple here in Chennai
> are
> >> taken for a spin in their palanquins and carts, carried by the devout,
> >> around the temple and its holy pond (about a kilometer in each
> direction),
> >> and the crowd that lands up for this most auspicious day numbers over
> >> 250,000. I landed up late, so missed a vantage point in one of the
> >> buildings, and had to jostle with the crowd to take a few shots - all of
> >> which are from road level:
> >>
> >> Palanquins of the Gods:
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Kapaleshwar_20110317_115-Edit.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Depending on the deity, a certain type of blessing is sought. Here is
> one
> >> for kids:
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Kapaleshwar_20110317_056-Edit.jpg.html
> >>
> >> The holy ash (vibhuthi) is distributed, and then smeared on one's
> forehead:
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Kapaleshwar_20110317_079-Edit.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Trance chanting and dancing:
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Kapaleshwar_20110317_180-Edit.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Night falls:
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Kapaleshwar_20110317_278-Edit.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Terrified kids - who could blame them - being handed over to a stranger
> at
> >> night in this crowd, losing sight of their parents, with a not very
> benign
> >> looking mother goddess looming over them:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Kapaleshwar_20110317_358-Edit_001.jpg.html
> >>
> >> C&C, as ever, welcome
> >>
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