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Vegetarian festival in Phuket (THAILAND)
See the Vegetarian festival where regular people are believed to have the Chinese God’s enter their bodies. In order to prove this, they put knives and other objects through their cheeks while on a trance.
Porn.... Normally she is a tourist guide taking you around Phuket. But today she is going to become a God in the Vegetarian Festival which is celebrated every year. We are going to meet her at the Jui Tui Shrine in Phuket. This temple is one of the important temples in which The Vegetarian Festival will begin.I order to be able t enter the temple you have to be dressed all in white from head to toe because this is the symbol of purity for them.
Porn enters a state of Trance . Her kother tells us that she looses her concience , her soul leaves her body and a baby God enters it. That is why she is more energetic than before. That is also the reason her voice changes. In order to prove that her body is posesed by a God, she uses her blade on her tongue. The message is clear ‘I don’t feel pain because I am a God’.
But how can this happen? What is the tradition
behind the story?
Vegetarian festival is Phuket's most important festival It lasts for 9 days and takes place late September or October, based on the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival celebrates the beginning of "Taoist Lent" when devoted Chinese abstain from eating all meat and meat products. The Vegetarian festival involves various processions, temple offerings and cultural performances and culminates with walking on hot coal, climbing knife-blade ladders, self-piercing the skin and so on.
Everything started 1825 when the governor moved the island's principal town from Ta Reua in Thalang District to Get-Hoe in Kathu district. Kathu was then still covered by jungle and malaria fever was widespread. There was a mining industry in Kathu and Chinese miners. A travelling Chines theatre troupe came to Phuket to perform for the Chinese thin miners. Struck down by a mysterious epidemic, the entertainers decided they had fallen ill because they had failed to pay proper respects to the nine Emperors Gods of Taoism. They consequently adopted a strict vegetarian diet to propitiate their deities, namely Kiu Hong Tai Te and Youk Hong Ta Te, and were cured.
As penance they erected Chinese temples and held a Vegetarian festival to ward off any residual bad luck. According to local legend the unorthodox remedy worked and the annual Vegetarian festival has been held ever since.
The local villagers decided to follow suit, beginning on the first night of the ninth month and continuing until the ninth night. These nine days of self-denial were considered to be auspicious both for the devotee and the community in large. Such a diet, moreover, is good for both the body, endowing it with health and strength, and for the soul, as the devotee refrains from killing animals for food and from all other sins. The spirit thus becomes clearer, calmer and filled with loving kindness.
What usually makes the deepest impression on visitors are the grisly scenes of self-mortification. The festival culminates with a procession of people deep in trance, piercing their tongues, cheeks and other parts of their anatomy with spears, daggers, sharpened branches and anything else that comes to hand. During the festival, watching the climbing of the blade ladder and running over hot coal is also both scary and amazing.It is often relieving to hear that the devotees possessed by the spirits of nine deities ,apparently feel no pain and show little sign of real injury..