Theemithi Festival (Fire walking ceremony)- Singapore Documentary Photography (42 images)

As a documentary photographer, i always want to do a documentation of the Thimithi Festival or the Fire walking Festival held in Singapore. It is one of the major Hindu festival celebrated by the Hindus during the month of October. This festival takes place in order to venerate and honor goddess Draupadi. Legend says that Draupadi was made to walk on burning coals barefoot, without any expressions of pain, in order to prove her fidelity to her husband. Commemorating this painful event and...
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As a documentary photographer, i always want to do a documentation of the Thimithi Festival or the Fire walking Festival held in Singapore. It is one of the major Hindu festival celebrated by the Hindus during the month of October. This festival takes place in order to venerate and honor goddess Draupadi. Legend says that Draupadi was made to walk on burning coals barefoot, without any expressions of pain, in order to prove her fidelity to her husband. Commemorating this painful event and respect the courage of the goddess, the Thimithi festival includes the bizarre event of fire walking. Thus it is also called the fire walking festival or ceremony.

The Thimithi festival is the time for the Hindu priests and the devotees to demonstrate the devotion, valor and fortitude. They do so by walking across a 21 ft pit full of burning coals without showing any signs of pain. This is considered a test of purity as the Hindus devotees and priests believe that they will be burnt only if they are impure. After the fire walking is done, they walk through a pit of goat's milk and blemish their feet with turmeric.




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