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Making of Goddess Durga in Kumortuli. I was invited to go there with one of my elder friend. Few days remain for the Dugra Puja(Festival of Bengali people). So in Kumortuli the making of goddess still continues. Sharing with my flickr friends with this capture. Have a nice week end firendz!!
Mother of Shiva “the Destroyer,” Brahma "The Creator", and Vishnu "The Preserver".
I think I'm going to make a little photo set representing these gods.
Once again just messing around with some lights and multiple flashes. Just having some fun in the park with some great friends. Got the idea from flickr.com/photos/alaskaalaskaphoto/
this kids a god (lol) at lighting tricks!!!
There are Nine Nights of Worship of Female Power. Navratri it is called and is a very important period in the Hindu calendar of Gods and yes Goddesses now.
I was at a loss to figure out whether this lady enmeshed in decaying iron by a male Hindu priest in Bhoginandishwara temple near Bangalore was a symbol of fertility what with the two betel leaves lying on the plinth of the alcove where she balanced delicately atop the head of a big horned buffalo.
I thought of asking some friends, versed rather well in matters esoteric. Then I let that urge pass. I checked images of a Hindu deity who would be on the top of a buffalo and from there I could get the thread as to who this voluptuous lady was and what was her story in Hindusim, her physical form so near perfection.
Whether the wire mesh prevented theft or the greedy advances of the worshipers, I am in no position to tell. She stood smeared in yellow powder as is the custom in temples in South India.
Meet Durga as she is popularly known or Goddess Mahalakshmi, the ultimate embodiment of a female created by all the Hindu Gods many millennia ago who imbued her with their own qualities and their own choicest weapons with 18 arms to go along in fight mode. ( In popular iconography she is generally shown with 4 or 8 arms as 18 would be impossible to accommodate in an aesthetic sculpture)
All this to vanquish Mahishasur, a demon who had attained near immortality by seeking a boon which made him immune from being killed by any man or God. The demon laughed off the suggestion that a woman could ever defeat him and that they were mere chattels. After he got his boon of immortality from the Gods, Mahishasur went off on an all conquering spree till there was nothing left to conquer on Earth. He then marched to Heaven and conquered the very Gods themselves and ruled the Heavens. The vanquished Gods wandering in the wilderness of nothingness, plotted and schemed and got together in their intrigue to manufacture a female figure who would be able to fight and get rid of the demon so that they could get on with the job of ruling their very own Heaven and Universe.
They ( Shiva, Brahma, Indra, Vishnu and others ) all gathered for the unique process of creating an entity out of nothing. A physical and metaphysical impossibility. The laws of physics can however allow light energy to be condensed and create matter. This the Gods did and created Mahalakshmi or Durga who was the epitome of feminine form and figure but imbued with a fighting spirit and armed with 18 choicest weapons of war.
Now this is a great scientific breakthrough which I am sure my fundamentally strong right wing Hindu fanatics would call superior Vedic or Pre Vedic science that precedes anything that the current day particle physics can come up with. Mind you it is easy to create light and heat energy from fission or fusion of
matter but current day science is yet to master the principle of creating matter out of light energy. We in India or let us say Indian Gods did this more than 2000 years ago and shaped a female figure of exquisite and superlative celestial beauty.
I am waiting for a Hindu scientist to come up with such a thought process and present a paper in a scientific community to highlight the glories of the Hindu civilization. I will not be surprised to see that happen in this atmosphere of over zealous interpretation of Hinduism that is ruling the roost these days.
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The puja pandal done up in the traditional way....
Here is a small write-up on Durga Puja taken from my contact Pallab Seth's stream. You must browse through his Durga Puja 2014 Album to see some spectacular Puja images.......
"Durga Puja - the ceremonial worship of the supremely radiant mother goddess, is one of the most important festivals, is celebrated every year in the month of October with much gaiety and grandeur in India and abroad, especially in Bengal, where the ten-armed goddess riding the lion and killing the Buffalo-Demon (Mahishasura) is worshiped with great passion and devotion. In Durga, the Gods bestowed their powers to co-create a beautiful goddess with ten arms, each carrying their most lethal weapon. The tableau of Durga also features her four children - Kartikeya, Ganesha, Saraswati and Lakshmi.
The temporary canopies - held by a framework of bamboo poles and draped with colourful fabric - that house the icons are called 'pandals'. Numerous visitors go 'pandal-hopping' during the four days of Durga Puja."
Editing : Auto tone and sharpness adjustment (in LR), a bit of boost and crop in Picasa
Durga Puja which is the greatest festival of West Bengal, India, is a celebration of creativity of little known artists and electricians. According to hindu mythology, Godess Durga is mother who is all powerful and kills the demons (evils of mind). She is married to Shiva (god of destruction and dance) and has four children- Ganesha (with head of elephant, the god of all good things), Godess Lakhmi (adjacent to Ganesha, the godess of wealth), Godess Saraswati (white, godess of education and music) and God kartikeya (adjacent to godess Sarswati, the god of war). All the idols are made up of clay and are immersed after three days of Puja(worship). Godess durga finds its existence in ancient sculptures (older than Buddhism) and literature.
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This capture is taken from Kumartuli at the time of making our Goddess Durga.
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A la fin de la fête de Durga, les hindous promènent les statues de la déesse dans toute la ville sur des chars, au son de la techno diffusé par d'énormes enceintes (beaucoup de décibels !).
At the end of the celebration for Durga, the Indians runs the statues of the goddess over all the city on floats with the sound of the techno music broadcasted by enormous speakers (many decibels !).
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The Shanta Durga temple, it has a big complex. More info about it can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanta_Durga_Temple
This was shot with my brothers cam :)
Explored on Oct 13, 2010 #345
In eastern India, Goddess Durga is worshipped in a grand manner every year. She is believed to be the destroyer of evil.
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Durgapuja is an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga and is also celebrated because of Durga's victory over Mahishasur. I have taken the photograph during Vijaya Dashami
Photo taken on : 06.10.2011
Place : Outram Ghat, Kolkata, West Bengal / Paschim Banga, India
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