First off I am feeling so much better and I am making it to work today! I was so excited after I found out what the fire chanting was at breakfast this morning that I ran back up to my room to blog about it.
So Munish my server from the morning explained to me what the fire chanting pit meant. Then I googled (and copy and pasted in the blog) because I couldn't make out half the story with his accent. I witnessed a winter festival called Lohri. Lohri marks the end of winter on the last day of Paush, and beginning of Magha(around January 12 and 13), when the sun changes its course. It is associated with the worship of the sun and fire and is observed by all communities with different names, as Lohri is an exclusively Punjabi festival. The ceremony is to light a large bonfire at sunset, toss sesame seeds, gur, sugar-candy and rewaries in it, sit round it, sing, dance till the fire dies out. People take dying embers of the fire to their homes.
Munish explained that Punjabi is an agricultural state and this festival also celebrates the ripening of the crops. After he answered all my questions, he asked where I was from. I told him Atlanta, GA and he was (in a thick Indian accent) "Oh Atlanta, I know Atlanta so much snow there!" It just made me laugh!
Christina I promise that the badge and security blog will go up tonight. There are a few photos that I need to grab before I post.
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