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Once a year the many faces of the deity are leaving their body, allowing them to update and Nepalese gain a long-awaited rain
Lokeshwar ("master of the world") is known in Nepal under many names and are honored and Buddhists, and Hindus. The latter often call him you can. Deity is defined as White or Red in color its sculpted images.
Patan and the town of Bungamati are temples red you can. They performed a ritual bath in the spring. The deity invoked at the time of his sculptures in silver vessel Kalash, and sculpture washed by water. The Nepalese believe that when the Nude figure of the deity with the sun, goddess of the cloud covers the sun and sends the rain. After bathing the figure left for a few days in a special room. Then the divine image upgrade using the thirty-two varieties of clay.
Ratha Yatra
The culmination of the ritual: the chariot hoisted the 20-meter-high "pillar" from the trunks of trees with statue of Lokeshvara inside. Multi-ton wagon draws a crowd. Nepalis believe that it gives their land fertility. After that, the deity invited from the Kalash in the updated sculpture, "reviving" him, and with honors again placed in the temple.
