Sunday, November 10, 2013

Painting a prayer to Lakshmi


    Every morning, women wash the entrance to their home and use rice powder to paint a kolam, a visual prayer to Goddess Lakshmi to bring prosperity to the household. Some are simple; others extremely intricate and suggest a higher mathematical power at work.

   Below, two images of a kolam painted on my street this morning (a little worse for wear by noon.)







   

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