Today me and four others (Lea, Michala, Ida and Anna)went to the Pashupacinath aria where you can watch cremation and beautiful tempels. When a person is cremated you are burned naked, covered in layers, with the color white, red and orange/ yellow. The color white symbolize pureness and mooning (soerge). Red symbolize marrige and happiness (happiness because life is pain and now you are dead = happy. Orange/ yellow symbolize Holiness. The body has to be turned tree times before it is burned, because of the tree gods: Shiva, Vissnu and Brama. If you are not cremated as a Hindu you bring shame to your family. The cremation is placed at the river and there is a place for every caste.
At the Pashupacinath aria we meet a Hindu man who told us alot about marrige. The first year a woman is married she has to wear white (for pureness). They may not have sex with their husband and not attend any parties or ceremonies. If the woman becomes a widow she has to wear the white (for sadness) on till you die.
Later we went higher up and meet a group of young men (ca. 17 years) who were training the sprot Zurkhanah, which is a sport from Iran. It is not easy to described, but it was an experiences to remember.
Maj
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