Oh My Goddess - October 20, 2012

It's Durga Puja in India and Kolkata is headquarters of the massive celebration. Five million people have arrived to celebrate with the already ten million who live here. All over town are structures built in her tribute with sculptures representing her awesome shakti power. Today the Ganga rituals turned banana leaves and sarees into personal goddesses for home use. The depiction below was taken from one of hundreds of pandels in this city.