Auyyappa Temple Festival
You never know what you'll see driving down the street in India.
We happened upon Temple Day- not sure what Temple Day is, exactly, but they sure know how to dress up an elephant.
Felt like Carnival!
A King without a child found one in the forest. They sent the King into the forest to find a tiger for milk for the child, thinking the tiger would surely kill him. The King rode on the tiger out of the jungle, much to the surprise of the people. This is the story of one of the many temple festivals celebrated in India.
A true story about Auyyappa Temple festival is that of a magic eagle which comes and circles the temple five times every year on the same day before disappearing again into the forest.
posted by RUBYLA @ 12:16 AM
1 Comments:
Rubes,
It is Ayyappa... and the story is that Kings adopted son (Ayyappa) is sent to the jungle to fetch tigers milkand comes back riding on the tiger...the exact story is on wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyappan
-P
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