Wednesday, February 17, 2010








This is the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple that we went to in Little India.
In the temple we had to ring three bells before we left and it would give us good luck. The first Deity (that's what they call the god statues) we saw had 4 legs and one of them was standing on a dead body. I don't know why but almost every God was standing on a dead body. There were people praying and they had to give the Deity gifts of fruits and flower necklaces. The last Deity that we saw looked like a vampire. The name of it was Sri Periaci and although she looked scary because she had blood coming out of her mouth, she was the goddess of fertility, safe childbirth, and the good health of newborn babies.
Before we went into the temple we had to take off our shoes and socks and we were "supposed" to have our arms and legs covered with clothes but we went in anyway.
In the Indian culture the left hand is used for "toilet task" so poniting at people or sacred object with the left hand is not polite. if you have to point you have to use your open palm.

3 comments:

  1. evan you are going to have to write a book abo
    ut your journeys in singapore

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  2. I think you are very lucky to do all these wonderful things
    By:Brianna Simms

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