Amazing Firewalk Celebration in India-Aug 2009
August 14, 2009
About 2,000 male devotees participated in the annual indian fire walking of 2009.
The preparation for the fire pit begins a before the fire walking with several rituals being carried out. At dawn of the fire walking day, special pooja is held in the Rukmani Sathyapama Sametha Sri Paarthasaarathy Thiraupathathevi Devasthanam and the Moola Thee or the First Fire is brought while the sun rises to the fire pit and kept there. As soon as this ritual is over, men rush to the logs of Tamarind wood, and bring them on their shoulders, and arrange them in the fire pit.
30 Tractor loads of Tamarind wood was brought for this years’ fire walking according to the President of the Rukmani Sathyapama Sametha Sri Paarthasaarathy Thiraupathathevi Devasthanam Shakthivel Malarchelvan. Many bottles of pure Ghee is poured into the pit and between the logs to spread the fire equally. Pure Ghee is poured till the fire is set to orange colour. The men keep watching the fire pit and adjust the firewood accordingly. With the sunset the men begin to take the unburnt logs away. Water is continuously poured on the men who are very close to the fire. Men began to make the bed of fire ready for walking. The bed of fire was ready at 8.30pm after many hours of hard work.
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