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Varanasi (Inde) - En cette fin septembre 2023, le niveau du Gange est très haut. Les pluies tropicales sont les principales responsables. Pour les croyants, pas de problèmes. Un niveau très haut ou très bas, une eau chargée de limon et de bactéries, n’empêchent pas les hindous de faire leurs ablutions quotidiennes. Shiva veille.
Purification
Varanasi (India) - At the end of September 2023, the level of the Ganges is very high. Tropical rains are the main culprits. For believers, no problems. A very high or very low level, water loaded with silt and bacteria, do not prevent Hindus from performing their daily ablutions. Shiva keeps watch.
6E08 Wolverhampton - Immingham steel with Lea Marston in the background, and the Tame purification lakes on the right.
When entering inside a Shinto shrine, the visitor should perform a symbolic cleansing called temizu (from te “hand” and mizu “water” - water to purify the hands). This purification is considered indispensable before visiting the sacred area and it signifies the removal of evil and pollution. For the ritual, every shrine provides an ablution pavilion - chōzuya or temizuya - usually a stone basin filled with clear water, with wooden ladles.
How to properly perform temizu:
Take the ladle with your right hand, fill it with water and pour some water to rinse your left hand. Then, move the ladle to your left hand and pour water over the right hand. Now, take the ladle back into your right hand, cup the left hand, pour some water into it and use it to rinse your mouth. Finally, tip the ladle vertically to clean the handle, and replace it on the temizuya.
St Mary of the Purification, Blidworth, Nottinghamshire UK preserves an unusual custom whereby the baby born nearest to Christmas in the Village is ceremonially rocked in a flower-decorated crib on the first Sunday in February. This is supposed to represent the presentation of Baby Jesus to the Temple. This image was taken on December 17th, so 2023's chosen child's arrival is probably imminent! Rocking's Babies are added to a list of names on display in this tiny historic church which dates to the 15th Century.
If we look carefully, Pandan reservoir offers some great details. I kept on walking, till I encountered this tube. It is coming from the
purification station just next the reservoir.
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A young Balinese devotee completing a process of prayer and purification at Taman Beji Griya in Bali.
Nara, Japan
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I never actually got the name down for this place, Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine, very extensive. I thought it had like a one word name at first. On a relatively free day, I drove south through Fujiyoshida to start my day here.
The rain was going off and on in the first half of the day, making it a little challenging to get the first batch of compositions here. Further into the grounds I found this. I've often seen fountains of similar spiritual significance at other shrines prior, but the ones prior all used bamboo chutes. This one was decidedly more elegant, opting to instead use a dragon, which had long lost the color it might've had and turned green from the water.
I couldn't get too ambitious with the motion blur because once again I was battling a white sky that would've gotten more overexposed the longer I had the shutter open. So I had to settle for a middle result. I of course attempted to get rid of that brightness in editing. I had more color then I originally thought I'd be working with too. I didn't notice how much yellow was peeking out of the dominant green on the dragon at first, and the red of the building and torii in the back. Not a super powerful contrast but enough to justify saving this angle. Because no tripods were allowed on the grounds, I think I actually laid my Canon on the side of the fountain, which was overflowing, which was dangerous because everyone knows most cameras are not waterproof. But anything for a different perspective.
I could have taken essentially the same photo as yesterday, same loco, same working, even the cloud was similar, however I tried Kingsbury Junction instead, with River Tame and its Purification Lakes in the background. 6D95 Bescot - Toton.
6E01 Wolverhampton - Immingham passes the Lea Marston Purification Lakes and Kingsbury Junction, in a lucky patch of sun. According to the information boards, pollution in the Tame as it emerged from Birmingham used to affect downstream to Nottingham, so the river was diverted into a series of lakes, old gravel workings, and slowing down the water flow allows silt to settle (the top lake is dredged from time to time, I think) and the water generally to become cleaner.
A man undergoes a purification ritual in a waterfall in Kyoto. The water is meant to wash away sins.
Shinto ritual purification
Shinto priests at a temizuya at Fushimi Inari-taisha Shinto Shrine to Inari, the god of rice, Kyoto, Japan. The temizuya consists of a water basin to perform "misogi," a ritual that involves rinsing the hands and mouth with water, symbolizing the purification of the body and mind before visiting the deity.
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Even more important than Christmas in Guatemala, Semana Santa commemorates the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ and is characterised by countless church services, numerous public processions and vast Andas, or floats , that can require up to 100 people to carry them through the streets. The incense purifies the air and spirit before the arrival of the sacred Anda.
The faces of the mourners are what made me select this version of this deeply moving scene. The silhouette of the volcano, and cross are also key. My memory is only missing the smell of the incense.
A Shinto monk, possibly a Yamabushi by the look of his conditioning, undergoes a purification ceremony in a mountain waterfall
It is a custom to cleanse your hands and mouth prior to praying at Japanese temples.
At the purification fountain near the shrine's entrance, take one of the ladles provided, fill it with fresh water and rinse both hands. Then transfer some water into your cupped hand, rinse your mouth and spit the water beside the fountain.
You are not supposed to transfer the water directly from the ladle into your mouth or swallow the water. You will notice that quite a few visitors skip the mouth rinsing part or the purification ritual altogether.
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Water purifies the soul as well as the body. For the first time ever this purification is seen! Try it at your own risk.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Ritual Purification Building (Mizuya)
Donated in 1618 by the Nabeshima clan from Kyushu, the water basin is made of granite. Unusually, the pillars holding up the roof are also made of granite instead of wood; wooden pillars would be prone to rotting. The carvings of waves and of dragons with waves are typical examples of Momoyama period (1573-1603) carving and polychrome decoration.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine:
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii. It is in the city of Hatsukaichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan, accessible from the mainland by ferry at Miyajimaguchi Station. The shrine complex is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Japanese government has designated several buildings and possessions as National Treasures.
The Itsukushima shrine is one of Japan's most popular tourist attractions. It is most famous for its dramatic gate, or torii on the outskirts of the shrine, the sacred peaks of Mount Misen, extensive forests, and its ocean view. The shrine complex itself consists of two main buildings: the Honsha shrine and the Sessha Marodo-jinja, as well as 17 other different buildings and structures that help to distinguish it.
Excerpt from itsukushimajinja.jp/en/route.html:
Takabutai: A large deck (554 sq. meters) in front of the Main Shrine is supported by stilts made of akamaishi (a kind of tuff).
Haraiden (Purification Hall): Features an irimoya-zukuri (hip-and-gable) roof, thatched with cypress bark.
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6Z50 Doncaster Roberts Road - Pengam, looking good in slightly dull light by the Tame Purification Lakes.
Water-filled basins (手水舍) are used by worshippers to purify themselves before approaching shrines and temples.