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October ends fifty four days till Christmas

they have them in piles
up front at the grocery stores -
clay lamps called deyas
© gillena cox 2015


next up-coming festival here is Divali

I am blog hopping today at 6WS

Phagwa

a frenzy of colour
good overcometh evil
the dancers tale
--gillena cox


Internet image from http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/l/20/206097-phagwa-festival-of-colors-saint-augustine-trinidad-and-tobago.jpg

Phagwa is celebrated on the first day of the full moon in the month of Phagun (February to early March).
It came to Trinidad and Tobago with the arrival of Indian indentureship in 1845. The origin of Phagwa or Holi can be traced to the Hindu holy scriptures Vishnu Purana in which there is the story of an evil King Hiranyakashipu who wanted to destroy his own son Prahalad for worshipping God instead of he, King Hiranyakashipu. According to the scriptures, Hiranyakashipu then made a plot with his sister Holika to destroy the child Prahalad by fire, for being disobedient to him. Instead, Holika perished in the inferno while Prahalad survived, thus establishing victory for good deeds over evil ones. more here