Hindu shrine

This is a series of pics I took of a man coming to a Hindu shrine Sunday morning about 7:15.

BTW, the motorcycle is incidental. It was parked there everyday, probably by an employee from the area.

Below, is the actual shrine. Before coming here, I always had the picture that Hindus went to big beautiful elaborate temples. Perhaps there are some around somewhere. there must be, because tourists keep taking pictures of them. but I have not seen a single one--not even a large one much less big, beautiful and/or elaborate. The one pictures below is much more typical of the shrines I have seen. Some are bigger; others smaller. But this is not unusual at all.




Everyday, the man below comes to wash the statue and shrine. (Can't really tell what the statue is supposed to represent, but there is a pic of an elephant-headed boy on the wall behind it.) I had hesitated to take his pic, because I recognize (assumed?) that he is doing his religious duty and I wanted to respect that. I did take a few pics from a distance with my zoom lens. But this Sunday after taking the series of pics above, I moved into position and took the pic that shows the shrine and statue. Just then, the cleaning man walked up carrying two buckets of water. So I motioned, asking if it was okay for me to take a pic. He nodded and posed. Just then another man walked up, poured something on the ground to the right of the shrine and bowed in worship.






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