phalady.photos posted a photo: A Tamil festival celebrated in India, Malaysia, and Singapore where devotees make a ceremonial act of sacrifice by piercing their skin with small hooks and carrying a float or pit of cow’s milk.

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Parade Float

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A Holy Burden

guineapig33 posted a photo: At the Thaipusam festival 2023 celebrated by the Hindu community in Singapore, a devotee inside the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple tries to balance the heavy log of burden, while preparing to perform the Kavadi Aattam (Burden Dance), a ceremonial sacrifice and offering to Murugan, the Hindu God of War. The devotee will have to carry these heavy burdens while going on a procession and dance along a pilgrimage route from one temple to another.

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Balancing the heavy burdens for the Thaipusam pilgrimage

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thaipusam parade

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Thaipusam@Holy Shower

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Tu_images posted a photo: thaipusam chariot procession in penang, Malaysia, 2011.

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