{"id":4951,"date":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/01\/13\/2005-01-13-andaman-women-pray-to-sea\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","slug":"2005-01-13-andaman-women-pray-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/01\/13\/2005-01-13-andaman-women-pray-to-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Andaman Women Pray to Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/template\/template.asp?template=Tsunami&#038;slug=Andaman+women+pray+to+sea+God&#038;id=66650&#038;callid=1\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>PORT BLAIR, ANDAMANS, INDIA, January 10, 2005: In an unusual sight across the tsunami-ravaged coast of Andaman and Nicobar islands, groups of women are offering prayers to pacify the sea God. It is a sad picture of women, many of whom have lost their near and dear ones, worshipping and wishing an end to the wrath of the waves. &#8220;The waves have devoured whatever we had. Prayers are our last resort to save the lives of those who survived,&#8221; says Padmavati. The ritual involves pouring fresh water from a brass spot into the sea. Women chant mantras, offer flowers and sit quietly for hours together near the coast. Known to be a customary Thursday ritual, the prayers have now become a daily affair. In Haddow area of Port Blair that faces the Chatham coast, every household has women of all ages thronging the shore more than once a day to offer prayers. Kneeling down on their knees and bending over to touch the coast, the women put tilaks (red mark) on everyone&#8217;s forehead, including the onlookers.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourcePORT BLAIR, ANDAMANS, INDIA, January 10, 2005: In an unusual sight across the tsunami-ravaged coast of Andaman and Nicobar islands,,&#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-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","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=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}