#GangesRiver

Stephen 🇵🇭✈️📷smlgo@pixelfed.social
2025-01-23
The boat that took us to the funeral pyre activities and blowing of the conch shells along the Ganges River in Varanasi. March 2024

#Varanasi #India #Boat #GangesRiver #Travel #Photograhy #IncredibleIndia
Stephen 🇵🇭✈️📷smlgo@pixelfed.social
2025-01-23
Creating the Swastika symbol before releasing it into the Ganges River. March 2024 #Travel #Photography

The #Swastika is a symbol that originated in #India and is sacred in #Hinduism, #Buddhism, and #Jainism. It is a cross with four right-angled arms that can face clockwise or counter-clockwise.

The swastika is also one of the oldest human symbols, dating back to the #Neolithic Period, around 10,000 BCE.

The word "swastika" comes from #Sanskrit and means "conducive to well-being".

The symbol may have represented the sun's movement across the sky.

#Varanasi #India #IncredibleIndia #GangesRiver
𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆®thorchrs@mstdn.ca
2023-06-07

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