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Details of a Kavadi on display at a museum. Translated as `Burden,` the kavadi, with its multiple piercings, are bore by Hindu devotees during the festival of Thaipusam to implore the God Murugan for assistance. Murugan is also known as Kartikeya and is the Hindu God of War |
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