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02/06/2005 06:23:48 AM · #1 |
THAIPUSAM is an annual Hindu festival which draws the largest gathering in multi-racial Malaysia - nearly a million people every year.
Several hundred devotees spear their cheeks with long, shiny steel rods - often a metre long - and pierce their chests and backs with small, hook-like needles in penance.
Tourists watch in awe as metal pierces the skin with hardly any bleeding and, apparently, no pain as the devotee stands in a trance in the dawn light after weeks of rigorous abstinence.
Here are the pictures i took on that day
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02/06/2005 11:53:35 AM · #2 |
| I watched a documentary about this festival. Actually it was a piercing documenary, but it did cover this. I found it quite interesting. They say that the body produces so much endorfins and that you apparently go into an out of body experience. Suppose to be immensley erotic and/or fullfilling. I guess that's one way to get high on life! (; |
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02/07/2005 11:27:52 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by MWitt:
I watched a documentary about this festival. Actually it was a piercing documenary, but it did cover this. I found it quite interesting. They say that the body produces so much endorfins and that you apparently go into an out of body experience. Suppose to be immensley erotic and/or fullfilling. I guess that's one way to get high on life! (; |
erotic? lol, thats the 1st time i've seen that word used to describe this event =Þ
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