Goddess Mariamman - Firewalk Festival 2008 Singapore

Just as I was getting bored in my room, pondering what the heck, nothing happening around, I was invited by my landlord to attend the Firewalk Festival in our locality.

Hundreds of Hindu devotees were gathered to present their offerings to Goddess Mariamman. The statue of the Goddess was on a chariot decorated with flowers and lights. The ladies carried their offerings in thalis in a long queue. The queue ends at the chariot where the pujaris take up the and offer the thali and offer the prasad to the Goddess.



This is the first time I had heard about the festival, and of course the first time seen it.. In a nation outside of India, it was quite and experience to see the rituals being carried out in such a good manner.