deities

A sacred idol of the Hindu deities - Laxmi Narayan - has been brought back home to Nepal from the Dallas Museum of Art almost 40 years after it first disappeared from a temple.

Festival participants wore costumes made from animal skins and lighted huge fires to burn crops as a sacrifice to the deities.

After last year’s muddy debacle, the BRC deities blessed us with a week of idyllic weather offering minimal dust, warm days and cool evenings.

To the Navajo “the summit that never melts” was a place where deities lived.

Instead of temples with elaborate statues of Hindu deities, he opened “lofts” and “lounges” where Hindu imagery is minimal.