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Milk offering
(Malaysia: Thaipusam in KL)

January 2005
Malaysia: Thaipusam in KL: Milk offering

While some carry elaborate kavadis or impale themselves with skewers and hooks, others simply carry a metal canister of milk up the stairs and into the caves. I was told that people who carry milk have to do it three years in a row in order to receive their wishes from Subramanian.


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