Ritual Throwing Clothes On Roof

Western indian ritual of hurling young children onto a cloth from heights of almost six feet during the hindu festival navratri.

Ritual throwing clothes on roof.

Involves rites to awaken and welcome the goddess to be a guest typically done on the sixth day of the festival. Anointing ritual wherein symbolic offerings are made to durga with each item representing a remembrance of subtle forms of her. If you want to see this ritual you must visit solapur in the state of maharashtra on the first of may. Renate söhen thieme a professor at the school of oriental and african studies london told the telegraph that the ritual is certainly not part of the classical hindu tradition and does not adhere to muslim precepts.

My mom was going crazy and she threw crap off the roof over a simple fanmail video. Typically completed on the. A similar custom at the sri santeswar temple near indi in the state of karnataka during the first week of december was reported on by the telegraph. The ritual long popular in maharashtra and karnataka states dates back almost 700 years to a time when infant mortality was high medical knowledge was scant and families had few places to turn.

This is a 700 year old ritual practiced by both hindu and muslim families in the area. The rituals before the puja begins include the following. A scene from a baby throwing ceremony in 2009. Bizarre 700 year old festival in india where screaming helpless newborn babies are thrown from the roof of an ancient mosque tossing the infants from the rooftop is believed to bring health and.

Legend has it that centuries ago when the infant mortality rate was high a saint advised the families of this region to demonstrate their faith in god by throwing their babies off the roof of a shrine and that god would magically produce a sheet below to catch them in. The tradition is also carried out in other parts of the state where the babies are tossed off the roof of temple roofs.