Orissa Matters

(Continuing discussion on Sri Jagannatha) Subhas Chandra Pattanayak As everywhere, tribal people of Orissa, marveled by agro-magic, were matriarch in outlook and were worshiping Mother Nature in whom they were seeing the factor of creation. To facilitate permanency of the object of worship they had developed the habit of worshiping wooden logs roughly designing the [...]

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