"Bessie" is the Pageant Queen in today's parade celebrating the Day of Pongal. This day is basically celebrated as an 'end of harvest' and' beginning of Spring' day. People throw out all their old clothes and supposedly their old habits, buy a new outfit, make new promises, and give food offerings to a series of as nearly as I can determine, non-participatory gods. Bessie behaved herself quite regally throughout the rather long, arduous ceremony with lots of drumming by a percussion section that left most of us deaf for about an hour. If you ever have aspirations to become a cow, you should try to get to India. Cows run the show here. And don't they know it. I've never seen so many uppity cows. Oh, and by the way, 'beginning of Spring' means temperatures soaring into the 100's pretty soon.
How interesting that the cows in this country are treated better than than some children....so sad!!!! diane
ReplyDeleteUppity cows? I love the visual! I can see the news headline now -
ReplyDelete"Cow Uppitiness On the Rise"
A 1 ton beast was seen walking down the middle of the street yesterday with its nose and tail in the air, as if to say, "Look at ME. My horns are painted blue, and you have to worship me."
And then it pooped.