WEDDING
OF THE GODDESS: PART I (36 minutes, 1976)
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...provides
the historical background for the annual Chittirai festival in the South
Indian city of Madurai. With tales from medieval Tamil poems, and paintings
and sculptures from local temples, the film illustrates how the city,
the main temple, the goddess Minakshi and the god Sundareshvara have
evolved, and how the reenactment of the marriage of the god and goddess
has become the most important annual festival of Madurai. The film shows
the basic process of exchange between the temple deities and their worshippers
and the importance of festivals in reestablishing cosmic order. The
film also illustrates the ways in which kings, priests, and lay people
contribute to the definitions and redefinitions of the festival's many
layers of meaning.
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