Weird or Interesting??: Religious Deed of Shiva Gaggiano

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Religious Deed of Shiva Gaggiano

Many villagers in the area of Calcutta, India, celebrated on April 13 religious festival of Shiva Gaggiano.

1. Indian Christians pray to Lord Shiva during the annual Festival of religious Shiva Gaggiano. (Reuters Pictures) (Reuters Pictures)

2. Hundreds of the faithful offer gifts and worship Shiva, hoping to get the location of God and the fulfillment of desires. (Reuters Pictures) (Reuters Pictures)

3. Indus hanging over the fire during the ritual Shiva Gaggiano village Bajnai, 80 km south of Calcutta, April 14. (Getty Images)

4. Hindus believe that through the pain of Shiva - the god of destruction - will hear their prayers. (Getty Images)

5. Hindu natachivaet the tip of a metal rod, which he is going to pierce his tongue at the festival Shiva Gaggiano. (Getty Images)

6. Thousands of people took part in a festival of worship to God Shiva, which lasts a month. (Getty Images)

7. Shiva - the Hindu personification of the devastating early universe and the transformation, one of the deities of the supreme triad. Embodies both destructive and constructive start. It is one of the oldest of the divine essence of humanity. (Getty Images)

8. During a religious ritual on the streets of the village go through the process, which sweep exhumed human remains. (Getty Images)

9. Local fans of Lord Shiva thus blessed Shiva, who in Tantrism sometimes appears as a corpse (Shawa). (AP Photo)

10.Actually, for the Indians to bury the dead - a fairly rare phenomenon, mostly all cremated except infants. Burial of the dead are found only in certain communities. (AP Photo)