Ganga Puja
May 21, 2007
Every evening in Varanasi they perform an elaborate puja to the river itself. In vedic mythology, there is a story about how a rishi convinced Ganga to come to earth from heaven, but she was worried that she would be too powerful and would wash away the earth. So Shiva said that she could first flow through his hair and he would soften her impact so the earth would not be damaged.
