Thursday, October 9, 2008

Kali Puja

This week is a very special week for the Nepalese. It is the festival of Dasain and there are a whole bunch of pujas (worships) going on. Our driver said that today was a special puja for all things mechanical. He recently just did a puja on the cars, but apparently this one is special for Kali. Here is the run down:

The god

x2

Kali Destroyer of Evil, who also happens to love coconuts and sugar cane

The worshipping necessities

x3

The worshipper: Devendra, Our driver

x1

The distraction during the worship

x4

x5

"Don't touch that! Let the gods eat the candy first!"

The Tikas

x7

x2

x1

x10

x11

x12

The Men Who Will Be Blessed

x14

3 comments:

Boquinha said...

My gosh. All I've done this morning is eat breakfast. Your life is amazing. I love little Sedona's picture with her big grin.

Stephanie said...

Hmm...do you think it would fix my transmission which just died?

Anna said...

Does the 3rd eye help you see into your kids' future behavior? I could have used one yesterday when Ben dumped all the Comet on the carpet and "scrubbed" it clean.