The Nine Emperor Gods Festival
30 OCT 2007 | Posted By: Luke
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Every Autumn the Chinese community on the island of Phuket hold the The
Nine Emperor Gods Festival (Vegetarian Festival). For the 9 day
duration of the festival the community abstains from sex, meat, alcohol
and tobacco to appease the 9 imperial Gods (that apparently descend to
earth) so that they will make for a prosperous year ahead. As you would
expect the abstainance drives hundreds of these folks absolutely crazy
and gives some of them freakish super powers of being able to walk on
hot coals, the ability to drive metal objects through their cheeks
without and bathing in hot oil all without any trace of harm. True
story. The below are some images from this festival (not recommended
for the faint hearted).
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