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  • Hotel assistant pours red rice into the pot of boiling milk as part of the Thai Ponggal celebration which is traditionally intended to thank the Sun God and farmstead livestock that helped create the material abundance.
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  • Hotel assistant pours red rice into the pot of boiling milk as part of the Thai Ponggal celebration which is traditionally intended to thank the Sun God and farmstead livestock that helped create the material abundance.
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  • Hotel assistant pours red rice into the pot of boiling milk as part of the Thai Ponggal celebration which is traditionally intended to thank the Sun God and farmstead livestock that helped create the material abundance.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-2.jpg
  • A hindu tamil hotel assistant boils milk by burning bamboo cane outside the hotel at the commencement of Thai Pongal celebrations. Boiling over of milk symbolizes material abundance for the household.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-1.jpg
  • The food offered to the Sun God at sunrise to demonstrate gratitude for the harvest. It is later served to the people present in the house for the ceremony. The food consists of Fruit, savories and sweets such as vadai, murukku, paayasam and finally the boiled rice.
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  • The food offered to the Sun God at sunrise to demonstrate gratitude for the harvest. It is later served to the people present in the house for the ceremony. The food consists of Fruit, savories and sweets such as vadai, murukku, paayasam and finally the boiled rice.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-5.jpg
  • Hotel staff look on as the food prepared for the Thai Pongal is blessed with incense.
    Thai_pongal-6.jpg
  • Hotel staff look on as the food prepared for the Thai Pongal is blessed with incense.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-6.jpg
  • Hotel staff look on as the food prepared for the Thai Pongal is blessed with Incense.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-3.jpg
  • The sacred cow out the front of the hindu Nallur Kandaswamy temple or kovil. On a rainy That Pongal day.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-8.jpg
  • A torch bearer leads the thai pongal hindu celerations inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal-7.tif
  • Worshipper holding a coconut representing the human body, the coconut is the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
    Thai_pongal-8-2.jpg
  • A hindu priest  or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper into the shrine.
    Thai_pongal-6.tif
  • Worshippers pile into a bus after visiting the Nallur Kandaswamy temple for Thai Pongal celebrations in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal-3.tif
  • A swarmy walks to worshippers presenting a burning flame which they worship & then placed in front of the shrine of the monkey god Hanuman, inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
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  • A worshipper prays outside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple on the day of Thai Pongal.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-24.jpg
  • Worshippers praying inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple on Thai Pongal.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-23.jpg
  • Worshipper holding a coconut representing the human body, the coconut is the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-19.jpg
  • A swarmy walks to worshippers presenting a burning flame which they worship & then placed in front of the shrine of the monkey god Hanuman, inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-17.jpg
  • A hindu priest  or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper to the monkey god known as Hanuman inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-16.jpg
  • Worshippers pile into a bus after visiting the Nallur Kandaswamy temple for Thai Pongal celebrations in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-14.jpg
  • Worshipper prays outside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple holding a coconut representing the human body, the coconut is the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-13.jpg
  • A worshipper prays outside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple on the day of Thai Pongal.
    Thai_pongal-8.tif
  • Worshipper prays towards a painting of a hindu god inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal-5-2.jpg
  • Young men in Jaffna town cycle back home after watching a hindi movie at the local cinema.
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  • Hotel staff worship & offer their food to the Sun God at sunrise to demonstrate gratitude for the harvest.
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  • Worshippers pile into a bus after visiting the Nallur Kandaswamy temple for Thai Pongal celebrations in Jaffna.
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  • Worshippers line up to be blessed by a swarmy inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-9.jpg
  • Worshipper holds & presents a lit coconut, the coconut represents the human body, the coconut is  the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-4.jpg
  • A torch bearer leads the thai pongal hindu celerations inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-22.jpg
  • A hindu priest  or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper into the shrine.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-20.jpg
  • A hindu worshipper prays to the hindu god Hanuman Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-18.jpg
  • Worshipper prays towards a painting of a hindu god inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-10.jpg
  • A swarmy walks to worshippers presenting a burning flame which they worship & then placed in front of the shrine of the monkey god Hanuman, inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal-5.tif
  • The sacred cow out the front of the hindu Nallur Kandaswamy temple or kovil. On a rainy That Pongal day.
    Thai_pongal-2.tif
  • Worshippers line up to be blessed by a swarmy inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal-4-2.jpg
  • A hindu priest or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper to the monkey god known as Hanuman inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
    thai_pongal_jaffnaIMG_9519.jpg
  • A hindu priest  or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper into the shrine.
    IMG_9537.jpg
  • The sacred cow out the front of the hindu Nallur Kandaswamy temple or kovil. On a rainy That Pongal day.
    thai_pongal_jaffnaIMG_9457.jpg
  • Young men in Jaffna town cycle back home after watching a hindi movie at the local cinema.
    Jaffna_HSQ_2011-1.jpg
  • Hotel staff worship & offer their food to the Sun God at sunrise to demonstrate gratitude for the harvest.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-7.jpg
  • A shop near the Nallur Kandaswamy temple selling offerings such as bananna, coconut & incense  to worshippers who are visiting the Nallur Kandaswamy temple for the Thai Pongal festival.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-15.jpg
  • Worshippers line up to be blessed by a swarmy inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-11.jpg
  • Worshippers depart the Nallur Kandaswamy temple after praying on the day of Thai Pongal.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-12.jpg
  • A statue of the Hindu Goddesses Lakshmi inside Nallur Kandaswamy temple in Jaffna.
    Thai_pongal_festival_jaffna_2011-21.jpg
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