IN PICS | Colour and celebration as Hindu devotees celebrate annual Thai Poosam Kavady festival: TimesLIVE photographer Sandile Ndlovu visited various Hindu temples around Durban to capture Kavady celebrations on Saturday.
Thousands of Hindu devotees across the country celebrated the annual Thai Poosam Kavady festival. The festival occurs in the month of Thai on the day when the full moon passes through the star “Pusam”. This event is called “Thai Poosam”. The festival is one of the biggest on the South African Indian calendar.Hindus show their devotion to the Hindu god Murugan by piercing their bodies.
During this period, devotees observe a fast, including abstaining from meat, for 10 days. The Kavady procession is seen as an outward demonstration of mass devotion to God as Lord Muruga. Devotees “hook” each other with spikes, lime, coconuts, fruits and flowers on their bodies, including piercing their tongues.
After being “hooked”, two-metre-long chariots are attached to their backs and they have to pull them for about 5km.
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