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Temples & Pilgrimage
The Sacred-Places Journey
What a Hindu temple is and why it is built as it is: its anatomy and orientation, the deity at its heart, and the pilgrimage places people cross India to reach.
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The temple
Going further · optional reading
'Idol worship' is a mistranslationMyth-busting At the end of the festival they carry the god to the sea and let the clay dissolve. 2
Iconic Temples
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The Shakti Peethas
Going further · optional reading
Do Aghoris really eat human flesh?Myth-busting The documentaries call them cannibals. 4
Temple Architecture
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Pilgrimage & Sacred Geography
When you want the deep water
One treatise extends this path
Book-length and chaptered, read in order. Start any of them once the readings above feel familiar.