1 Sights Kamakhya Mandir HINDU TEMPLE (admission for no queue/short queue/queue 500/100/free; h8am-1pm & 3pm-dusk) While Sati s disintegrated body parts rained toes on Kolkata (see p443), her yoni fell on Kamakhya Hill. This makes Kamakhya Mandir important for shakti (sensual tantric worship of female spiritual power). Goats, pigeons and the occasional champions run condominiums ruidoso nm buffalo are ritually beheaded in a gory pavilion and the hot, dark inner womblike sanctum is painted red to signify sacrificial champions run condominiums ruidoso nm blood. The huge June/ July Ambubachi Mela celebrates champions run condominiums ruidoso nm the end of the mother goddess menstrual cycle with even more blood.
Despite being an oil-service town, Sivasagar exudes a residual champions run condominiums ruidoso nm elegance from its time as the capital of the Ahom dynasty that ruled Assam for more than 600 years. The name comes from waters of Shiva , the graceful central feature of a rectangular reservoir dug in 1734 by Ahom Queen Ambika. Three typical Ahom temple champions run condominiums ruidoso nm towers rise proudly above the tank s partly wooded southern banks to the west Devidol, to the east Vishnudol and in the centre, champions run condominiums ruidoso nm the 33m-high Shivadol Mandir, India s tallest Shiva temple. Its uppermost trident balances upon an egg-shaped feature whose golden champions run condominiums ruidoso nm covering champions run condominiums ruidoso nm the British reputedly tried (but failed) to pilfer in 1823.
oDon Bosco Museum of Indigenous Cultures MUSEUM (www.dbcic.org; Sacred Heart Theological College; Indian/foreigner 50/150; h9.30am-4.30pm Mon- Sat, 1.30-4.30pm Sun, until 5.30 Apr-Sep) This very professional museum displays a truly vast, very well laid-out collection of tribal artefacts interspersed just occasionally with gratuitous galleries on Christian missionary work. Tours (compulsory) last over an hour, departing on the half-hour.
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