Saturday folks around here were celebrating the holiday
Deepavali (or Diwali). As a major holiday it has greeting cards! Plus as a major holiday here it comes with small envelopes to put cash in and give to kids. I had seen this for Chinese New Year other places but every holiday has it here!
Holidays here also mean open houses so you can drop in on your friends and they give you food. We need to pick up the open-house concept in the US. Except that people don't actually stay at their homes enough to to receives guests. This is a Hindu altar one family we visited had outside.
I believe this is
Ganesha and honestly, it weirds me out. A lot. We tried to ask around about what Deepavali meant but didn't get much traction with people. It seems it has to do with good trouncing evil (hence the tag: Festival of Light) but that was as far as we got. Also, it seems to depend on if you ask a Hindu, Sikh, or Jain. That is how India rolls ... with variety. Lots and
lots of variety.
Saturday folks around here were celebrating the holiday Deepavali (or Diwali). As a major holiday it has greeting cards! Plus as a major holiday here it comes with small envelopes to put cash in and give to kids. I had seen this for Chinese New Year other places but every holiday has it here!
Holidays here also mean open houses so you can drop in on your friends and they give you food. We need to pick up the open-house concept in the US. Except that people don't actually stay at their homes enough to to receives guests. This is a Hindu altar one family we visited had outside.
I believe this is Ganesha and honestly, it weirds me out. A lot. We tried to ask around about what Deepavali meant but didn't get much traction with people. It seems it has to do with good trouncing evil (hence the tag: Festival of Light) but that was as far as we got. Also, it seems to depend on if you ask a Hindu, Sikh, or Jain. That is how India rolls ... with variety. Lots and lots of variety.
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