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Subject: [Leica] Temple Festival
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:42:45 +0200
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Hi Jayanand

You have found a perfect expression...

cheers
Lluis


El 29/03/2011, a las 6:32, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:

> Ric/Luis,
> Thanks for looking. Our procession looks similar but a little less  
> frantic,
> though - maybe because there is a lot more space.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Lluis Ripoll
> <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>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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