Taking the Strain
This is the second day of the Thaipusam festival when the believers pay their penance to the gods by having hooks threaded through their skin and walking 5 kilometres to the temple. The ones in their backs look bad but the ones going through the cheeks actually go through the tongue too so that they cannot even speak. The cans they carry are full of milk which seemingly has a significance as everybody carries this to the temple to be blessed. After seeing this I am quite pleased he isn't my God :-))
Taking the Strain
This is the second day of the Thaipusam festival when the believers pay their penance to the gods by having hooks threaded through their skin and walking 5 kilometres to the temple. The ones in their backs look bad but the ones going through the cheeks actually go through the tongue too so that they cannot even speak. The cans they carry are full of milk which seemingly has a significance as everybody carries this to the temple to be blessed. After seeing this I am quite pleased he isn't my God :-))