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Indonesia: Stealing food from the gods
Posted By: MESETA [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 5-Aug-2012 08:43:44
Hundreds of Indonesians armed with nets trekked inside a giant volcano crater yesterday to get their hands on some of the annual offerings to the Gods made during a traditional festival.
The annual Yadnya Kasada festival, which takes place on the east side of the island of Java, dates from the 15th century and is always held on the 14th day of the Hindu festival.
Yesterday the Tenggerese people of Probolinggo scaled the sides of 7,641ft Mount Bromo before entering the crater edge to take up pole position to grasp some of the rice, livestock, vegetable, fruit and money, thought to bring good luck, which are discarded into the volcano caldera.
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