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Tragic fate sent on July 04, 2013 (13:15) by Memy. 21 comments, 1668 views.

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Il tempo di Kamakhya è considerato il monastero più sacro dai devoti di Shakti. E' un crogiuolo di fedeli e sadhu che provengono da tutto il paese e rimane il tempio in cui si svolgono il maggior numero di sacrifici animali. Decine di caprette e piccioli vengono sacrificati tutti i giorni per ottenere la benevolenza della Dea Madre . In un area attigua al tempio centrale i monaci preposti, dopo una breve cerimonia e dopo il lavaggio, sacrificano le caprette decapitandole su di un apposito patibolo. E' indubbiamente una scena crudele ed il disgusto è acuito anche dall' odore del sangue ma aiuta a capire un culto complesso e, sacrifici a parte che per noi sono incomprensibili, non certo privo di fascino. Il momento del sacrificio è ritualizzato e vissuto con rispetto ed alla fine la capretta viene scuoiata e la carne restituita ai richiedenti del sacrificio così potrà essere mangiata. Fin dalla prima volta in cui sono stato in questo tempio anni fa, ho pensato quale potesse essere il modo migliore per raccontare questa scena: il momento della decapitazione è troppo forse e credo che, gli ultimi istanti di vita dopo la " benedizione" siano il momento più intenso. Assam - India Dicembre 2012





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sent on July 08, 2013 (10:17) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Forty visits without any kind of feefback: I think it can hardly remain indifferent so I'd like to know if it's because the photo does not like or disturbing ....

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sent on July 08, 2013 (10:39) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

It just is not easy to comment after looking at the photos, read your perfect description of the moment and then cover the picture with different eyes for the kid. It's not easy not to slip in comments polluted by the feeling of pain to the animal and non-acceptance of the uses of other religions. Personally, I congratulate you for even posted the photo and caption, as an information document are very valuable.
I do not know if you will be insulted (I hope not) or idolized for this "document" but I just think that if he published the national geogrphic in an article about this topic not only the spirits remain calm.

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sent on July 08, 2013 (11:03) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Hello Memy, only now I see the picture!
Sure there have definitely used in the most beautiful pictures, but rather on the photo after reading the caption takes effect.
For us now accustomed to our sanitized world, the churches, the supermarkets, the vision of the goat and all
the blood in the background "obliges" us to see and to think, and slams us in the face the fact that billions of people live in a very different way from ours, of course we do not sacrifice animals in public but what happens in our
our farms and slaughterhouses ....... but we do not see, now we delegate this work to a few others.
I think images like this bother us 'cause us to reflect on things that we rather avoid, we know but we try at all costs not to have anything to do instead are part of a reality' that we shy away.
Peppe


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sent on July 08, 2013 (11:23) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thank you very much Fotoddo and Peppe!
I can well understand the difficulty of approcciarsie to comment on certain images. It is a picture that must be contextualized (l 'ideal was to put it in a wider reportage), and for this I have dwelt in the description, I wanted to make people understand a very specific situation.
The temple of Kamakhya, among all the temples we saw in India, is perhaps the one I prefer is just because of dense strong and conflicting emotions ..
In that 'corner of the temple animals are blessed and then sacrificed to obtain the goodwill of a deity but in the end is a mess, there are also drugs such as from us, so that then the meat is later returned and eaten, especially secondary and not very important not to consider the whole end in itself ....


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sent on July 08, 2013 (20:08) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Memy Hello, I agree with what he wrote those who preceded me, we do not see what happens in a slaughterhouse national, many years ago I did a photo shoot in a slaughterhouse in Vieste was impressive as will impress some see your shot. To return to the photo posted makes me think that the kid has turned to seek pardon.
Maximum

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sent on July 08, 2013 (21:47) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Hello Massimo,
I years ago I worked as a night watchman in the largest slaughter of Europe 's and those who worked in the department where they killed the beasts, always told me that, as it may seem more cruel, for the' animal is more painless sticking ... .

Returning to the photo I also had that 'feeling his eyes and bleating gave the impression that he understood clearly what would have been his fate.

avatarjunior
sent on July 08, 2013 (23:37) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Yes, but when you see that swell the goats before killing them to stretch the skin or bulls smelling of death even before entering the slaughterhouse this I will never forget. :-(
Hello

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sent on July 09, 2013 (10:22) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I do not know, frankly I 've ever seen and I do not care even see it ... I can choose if I avoid so much so that when I worked at the slaughterhouse there have never entered until after the end of the shift and washing.
In this case, the rituals and the end of the gesture calls to mind not without interest that I wanted to try to understand and document though, to fully understand a religion with millions of gods and where the same goddess has 180 different names depending on its manifestations, at least for me, is really a difficult task!
But not for this reason you can not grasp the charm of this temple built in the exact place where the sex of Sati fell, while desperate Shiva was carrying around the universe the body burned. Shakti means strength, power, feminine energy, is the manifestation of the divine feminine.
In a dark room of the templemain, access to which you have to make hours in a row, the Mother Goddess is worshiped in the form of yoni, the female around which flows a stream of water from a pure source that continually bathes the yoni. Pilgrims touch the yoni, drink the water flowing around, adorn it with flowers and the main celebration is held in the temple is a feast during which the Goddess is honored for her menstruation bearer of life, luck, abundance and good energies.
In this place, the propitiatory rituals, including animal sacrifice, will make fertile infertile couples, solve sexual problems, they will fade away the evil eye or will make a personal enemy is rendered harmless ...

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sent on July 09, 2013 (10:28) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Write the above lines gave me an opportunity to ask me why I have not ever thought to attend the celebration of the Goddess of the menstrual cycle and at the end I realized that I definitely want to go there!
Another trip, another experience to dream and to achieve ..... :-P

avatarsenior
sent on July 09, 2013 (10:53) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

A very raw.

avatarsenior
sent on July 09, 2013 (11:20) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I witnessed a slaughter of a sheep with the Muslim rite on the streets of Kargil in Kashmir, I made some shots that I still buried in the HD but I never had the courage to publish it to affect them. Personal choice, they disgust me both violence and blood ...
I never judge on principle rites and customs of the places I visit, I also believe that certain scenes, even far worse, can be observed in our slaughterhouses, livestock or poultry shops, where the animals are killed with modern methods but no less bloody. And 'the case of chickens that are zapped with an electric shock and then pass in a spennatrice ... unfortunate that many do not die right away and then undergo the task of plucking, cogged wheels, alive ....

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sent on July 09, 2013 (13:41) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thanks Archimedes and Pisolomau.

I share with you the disgust for blood and violence, but at the same time I think that certain images may show something different and make people think ..

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sent on July 09, 2013 (13:58) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

A document a bit 'raw but that has to reason. I agree with what was written by Peppe550 and I believe that every religion and every nation has its own traditions that we still have to adhere to, as it is right that others respect our own.
A good at Memy
Maximum

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sent on July 09, 2013 (16:03) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thanks Max!

avatarsenior
sent on July 09, 2013 (17:11) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Hello, I agree with Fotoddo ... and it is difficult to comment on shooting the latter giving me back an undefined sense of agonizing discomfort that melts at the same time with due respect for the ritual where, as well as a few simple steps above you claim ".. the rituals and the end of the gesture damage a connotation not uninteresting ... "
A photo truly an effect in any case ;-)

Bye!

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sent on July 09, 2013 (17:21) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I see the pictures just now, it is a wonderful document, and to the scene that you have taken and how it is framed, I can not find a photo is raw, it is very eloquent. I like it because it immediately touches a chord of sensibility and even the nature of the mind delegated to conservation. I think he did a great shot. A greeting.

avatarjunior
sent on July 09, 2013 (17:22) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Going back to the photo I also had that 'feeling his eyes and bleating gave the impression that he understood clearly what would have been his fate.


Of course I understand. All the animals before they are killed not understand it. Even in slaughterhouses.
In this photo itself understands eyed ...

Commenting apathetically the photo does not know, maybe I would have included the entire kid.

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sent on July 09, 2013 (17:22) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Hello Memy!
You know, I went back several times to cover this your picture and every time I was looking for the right words to comment on it. Difficult to express itself when certain images involve you emotionally and it is not the feeling of a sunset, a photo of intense street, etc. etc..
In my travel have seen some very strong ... even more than this.
The conclusion that in the time I made my own, however, is that it is morally wrong to judge something just because it is far away and does not belong to sensibility and culture.
Clear that our "feel" rebels against what I said just above, and hence the difficulty in managing the vision and, above all, the witness (as has happened to you) in scenes like this.
Your image combined with the caption deeply affects those who guarda and I can only endorse your choice to post this sinanche raw and upsetting. It 'a way to become aware of habits that we will never make our own and we should not have claim to understand but not the arrogance to judge.
Memy Bravo!
Best wishes
Michela

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sent on July 09, 2013 (17:48) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thank you very much Massimo, Paul, Michela Bobnc21e

I have not included any kid because they would enter distracting elements and focus more because I was interested in l 'attnezione on the look which otherwise would be lost ..

I snapped even at the moment of decapitation but those photos I find them much more for themselves and less significant of a picture like this.

I agree with you Michael, never judge and in any case it is always worth it to try to understand despite all the limitations of a very different cultural background.
But will this temple, built around the yoni of the Mother Goddess, with the multitude of pilgrims, red everywhere, the multitude of pelleggrini, sadhus and mendicamnti as a whole I find them very fascinating and are part of thatcharm even the sacrifices ...
For myself agnostic but I have conviction that this is one of those places where mysticism is stronger, for example, a feeling that I happened to also try going up and down the steps of the torrri of the Sagrada Familia where the tension towards the ' another is not only architectural but you can breathe .....
As I said, it's a scene that may have an effect but it has a deep meaning and a sort of charm which is hard to ignore: I will not let myself be upset by scenes like this but I would never, ever observing an animal while it is killed in a slaughterhouse ....

avatarsenior
sent on November 07, 2013 (8:19) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Barbarism? ... culture? ... customs and traditions? ...... violence? Perhaps a little of everything, 'and certain' that the photo hits like a punch in the stomach, the look of the animal tells the imminent development of the situation ...: fconfuso:


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