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Published: August 8th 2007
With a train late evening, and needing to make our way across the channel to the station, we left Fort Cochin mid afternoon. An ordinarily straight forward route was transformed into a rather ardous one with the house on our back, the short walk - ferry - long hot sweaty walk to the station pulled the corners of San's mouth down further down south, further than any part of her body would every tra...
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Coconut, flowers, incense are relatively inexpensive offerings to the gods. They signify purity and all that is good in nature. In some other cultures offerings would include sacrificing some animals. Hiduism as a religion and culture in general avoids shedding blood. Most Hindu festivals (though not all) are celebrated with vegetarian foods (even houses where meat eating is relished). Not everything is measured in terms of money. The temple priests are generally very poor people dedicated to serving the gods. The only income they get is what is given to them during the puja ceremonies. The mantras chanted during the ceremony are basically sanskrit (being considered the language of gods) shlokas invoking gods blessings and praising the gods.