Gorehabba festival - a cow dung ritual

[Energy]

I find this interesting and want to know more about it if Indian posters can shed more light. Is the dung considered sacred, just because it's coming out of a cow? Even then- why do you need to toss it around and play with it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1981948840732217596

 

[sweep_shot]

LOL!

Can you imagine the stench?

 

[pillionrider]

I find this interesting and want to know more about it if Indian posters can shed more light. Is the dung considered sacred, just because it's coming out of a cow? Even then- why do you need to toss it around and play with it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1981948840732217596

The place sounded like it was in my state, Karnataka and Google tells me it is. First time hearing about this. I mean, I've seen these visuals shared by MAGA guys but didn't know where they were from.

Hinduism is a complex religion and literally every village has their own deity. Each deity has then over centuries been called the incarnation of a main god like Vishnu or Shiva. But they didn't start of like that. I actually found the story that they're celebrating a god who was born in excrement quite nice. There must be a nice tale around this about this character rising from excrement to be revered. That is quite cool if you think about it without judging it by your own sense of hygiene. These guys probably live among a lot of cows and use dung in their homes, on the walls or to even cook food. So the smell might not be a big deal.

I kind of find this similar to the story of Jesus being carried on a donkey and being born in some kind of animal shed. There is an angle of humility there where you reduce the origins of a great person to a dumb animal or dirty place or even excrement.

Of course, you can argue - all that is fine, why don't they just worship a big mound of cow dung.

Why throw it on each other .


I don't know. Maybe it feels homely

 

[RexRex]

I kind of find this similar to the story of Jesus being carried on a donkey and being born in some kind of animal shed. There is an angle of humility there where you reduce the origins of a great person to a dumb animal or dirty place or even excrement.

I don't see it; this one is slightly more unhygienic than Jesus being born in a shed.

There's a similiar festival in Spain where you throw tomatoes at everyone around you. That seems like nothing but a waste of food to me.

 

[pillionrider]

I don't see it; this one is slightly more unhygienic than Jesus being born in a shed.

There's a similiar festival in Spain where you throw tomatoes at everyone around you. That seems like nothing but a waste of food to me.

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Oh lol I was going to bring up this tomatina thing but forgot.

Random note - they tried this in my city, Bengaluru, and some activists filed cases for wasting food hahaha.

 

[pillionrider]

I don't see it; this one is slightly more unhygienic than Jesus being born in a shed.

Yeah sure. My point was more about the angle of humility to these kind of settings or origins. I think the whole purpose is to show greatness can emerge out of (traditionally) unlikely places. Isn't it more inspiring to hear about someone becoming great, rather than someone being born great.

 

[RexRex]

Yeah sure. My point was more about the angle of humility to these kind of settings or origins. I think the whole purpose is to show greatness can emerge out of (traditionally) unlikely places. Isn't it more inspiring to hear about someone becoming great, rather than someone being born great.

I guess that's one way to look at it.