Patrick Childress makes another great video. He explains the meaning behind the Thaipusam Celebration, what they are doing as they make a public spectacle out of kavadi and piercings and the long long walk up to the temple. His photography and his wife’s videography (this video only) as they watch Thaipusam shows everything in detail, and shows the emotion of this true expression of religious devotion for a Hindu, in Penang, Malaysia.
If you want to know more, here are 2 books specific to Thaipusam and it’s meaning. As foreigners and Christians, we can only skim the surface of these Hindu rituals
