Holi Celebrations in Goa - India | FESTIVALS OF GOA - INDIA

Описание: Holi also known as the "festival of colours", is a Hindu spring festival celebrated all across India and Nepal and among Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as in countries with large Indian subcontinent diaspora populations such as Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mauritius, and Fiji. It signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. It is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest. It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon day) falling in the Vikram Samvat Hindu Calendar month of Phalguna, which falls somewhere between the end of February and the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar. The first evening is known as Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holi and the following day as Holi, Rangwali Holi, Dhuleti, Dhulandi, or Phagwah.

Holi is a traditional Indian festival where all the Indian families and friends come together and celebrate the festival of colours. Everyone is on the streets applying colours to each other.
Holi ou a celebração das cores esconde uma história mitológica muito interessante. Prahlad venera Vishnu mas o pai Hiranyakashipu não quer que o filho venere este deus. Ele quer que o venere a si, pai.
Prahlad não lhe dá ouvidos e o pai fica furioso. Pede aos seus súbditos para espezinharem, usando elefantes, o filho até à morte, mas o filho sai ileso.
O pai então põe-no num quarto cheio de víboras, mas nada. O filho sai imune.
Num último grito de desespero, o pai pede à filha Holika que tem poderes mágicos e não se deixa queimar pelo fogo, para se sentar numa pira de fogo com Prahlad ao seu colo, para que este morra reduzido a cinzas.
Toda a população se junta em roda da pira. Surpresa das surpresas, o manto que cobria os ombros da Holika, voa para os ombros de Prahlad.
Holika morre reduzida a cinzas e Prahad sai mais uma vez ileso.
É por isso que no anterior à celebração das cores, o povo dança à volta de uma fogueira e há mesmo quem passes por cima das brasas sempre ao som de tambores.

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