Indians Are Partying And Praying For Elephant-Headed God Ganesh
For 10 days, they sing, dance, chant and pray at the feet of Ganesh statues, then submerge them in water. The festival was once used to circumvent British rule.
by Lauren Frayer
Sep 22, 2018
2 minutes
On India's west coast, revelers hoist up statues of an elephant-headed god, and parade them toward the Arabian Sea. They sing and chant, and hand out food to bystanders.
For 10 days, they perform pooja — Hindu prayers — at the statues' feet and then submerge them in bodies of water.
This is a tradition in Mumbai, India's biggest city, near the end of each year's monsoon
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