{"id":12916,"date":"2013-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/07\/29\/a-peacock-dance-for-goddess-amman\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T12:00:00","slug":"a-peacock-dance-for-goddess-amman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/07\/29\/a-peacock-dance-for-goddess-amman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peacock Dance For Goddess Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zol.ch\/bezirk-hinwil\/duernten\/Ein-Pfauentanz-fuer-Goettin-Amman\/story\/30175702\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DURNTEN, SWITZERLAND, July 20,2013 (Bezirk Hinwil): For more than a week now the fourth annual festival of Sri Vishnuthurkkai-Amman temple in Durnten has been in full swing. As in previous years, several hundred faithful were expected daily. The core of the festival is the homage of the Gods.<\/p>\n<p>The Deity that is the focus of worship may differ in each temple: In Durnten it is the Goddess Amman. Every day elaborate ceremonies are being held &#8211; on Sunday morning there&#8217;ll be a water ritual at the nearby creek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The beginning of the festival was timed to coincide with the last day of school in Zurich Canton,&#8221; says the chief priest T. Sarahanabavananthan. He wants to give as many believers and their families a chance to participate in the festival. Most of them are originally from Sri Lanka. The priest emphasized that guests are welcome at any time. &#8220;We want the people in Switzerland to see our culture up close. Therefore, interested parties can stop by if they like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A particularly good opportunity was offered on Saturday morning. At about 10.30 the main event of the twelve-day festival took place: the procession in honor of Goddess Amman. Here her statue was drawn around the temple on a trolley. Worshipers made offerings, and there was a peacock dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source DURNTEN, SWITZERLAND, July 20,2013 (Bezirk Hinwil): For more than a week now the fourth annual festival of Sri Vishnuthurkkai-Amman,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}