THAIPOOSAM CAVADEE
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2024
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Spectacular Tamil festival where penitents parade, their bodies pierced with needles, carrying a cavadee (wooden arch).
This festival is celebrated almost every month in different Tamil temples of the island. But the most important cavadee, the one that gives rise to a public holiday, takes place in January or February. On each occasion, the devotion is expressed in a procession where the penitents, in a trance, carry on their shoulders the cavadee, a wooden arch evoking the temple of Mourouga, the son of Shiva. Jars of milk are hung from this arch covered with flowers. The devotees parade with their bodies pierced with needles, their tongues and cheeks pierced with pins.
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We visited the beginning of the ceremony, it rather impressive and is very colourful. Full of tolerance also...