this week starts the hindu festival of navratri...its my favorite time of the year!! i wait and plan for these nine days of celebration from the beginning of the year. navratri celebrates the nine forms of the goddess Durga and her triumph over evil beings..worship and dance commence for nine days in celebration of the goddesses triumph and "shaki" power..the tenth day is spent in worship and prayer completeing the holy month in october..
the video below shows an example of the typical navratri dance form, garba/raas...(there's a video of the SMU traditional indian dance team performing a competitive form of this dance that can be viewed in an earlier post)
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