Showing posts with label Firewalkers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firewalkers. Show all posts

Tuesday 13 May 2014

Kovil Sri Maha Mariamman - Fire Walkers on the pit






The heat was already unbearable from where I was standing, thus I couldn't possibly imagine how people would be walking barefoot across those hot coalsYet later on, men, both young and old would be doing exactly that without skin peeling off their soles

Entourage for a Hindu Goddess




Looking at the tiny umbrella and elaborate flower structure on a sedan from the back, one might be inclined to think that they were in Bali rather than Penang.



In the run up to the actual firewalking event, the Goddess was taken on a walkabout to invite and escort a bigger entourage back to the temple grounds

Firewalking festival - amazing scenes from Tanjung Bungah


If not for the banner proclaiming the firewalking event, I would have thought that I had walked right smack into a mini Thaipusam street carnival.
Still, I almost fainted when I turned around and saw this man wielding a huge blade / sickle with a lime at the tip