Batu Caves in Malaysia

[Bert Vierstra]

A Hindu Temple in Malaysia on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bert4/sets/72157616334326481/

Playing with my new camera...

Wednesday there will be a Hindu Festival, where they stab themselves etc...

 

[Bert Vierstra]

Some Hindu Wisdom found near the Batu Caves:

The text is next to the picture:

 

[tintin]

Even shame faced womanhood is more to be estimated that the shameless manhood that preforms the behests of a wife

No wonder they go to the shrine and stab themselves... :lol: :lol: :roll: :evil:

PS. Did they mean to say "behests"or just "B.S"?)

 

[mimpimanis]

Bert - I was there back in 1989 and found that nearby there were a some ... for want of a better word.. malformed animals in the area close to the caves. Cows with five legs I remember mostly and have photos of one cow with a small fifth leg growing out of its back and another with a fifth leg growing out of its chest. In the western world they probably would have been put down at birth but there they were considered sacred. I have always been curious since if they are still around or more of the same?

 

[Bert Vierstra]

Didn't see them. They keep snakes, a crocodile and some other reptiles in a cave nearby.

And at the entrance the have a python, for the tourist pictures, (like in Tanah Lot) and a they play with a viper, who is supposed to guard the temple.

When an animal with birth defect is born in Bali, it still attracts a lot of people and magical explanations.

 

[mimpimanis]

I was at Tanah Lot today funnilly enough. The girls were wanting their photo taken with a snake...but I have only ever seen a sign for a place, no snake. Is it still there? Down on the beach in the caves you can go look... or maybe touch if you are brave enough to put your hand in... but no photo.

 

[tintin]

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