[Leica] IMG: Rat Temple

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Temples in Asia -

India - Rats: http://www.karnimata.com/

Malaysia - Snakes (Pit Vipers):
http://www.tourismpenang.gov.my/page.cfm?name=at02b_06

Thailand - Tigers: http://www.tigertemple.co.uk/

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Tina said:
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> >> BUT most of the devout were walking barefoot so the rats could climb on
> their feet.  It's considered even better if you get rat saliva on you and
> I
> do have photos of a mother smearing rat saliva on her child's face, but,
> unless you knew what was going on, you couldn't tell from the photo :-( <<
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> Oh my oh my! :-( However I suppose this falls into "Too each his own!" of
> believing in a Great Spirit of their choosing.
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> I always thought some day I'd like to do a shoot in India.
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> However dear lady you've put that notion a long way to the back of burning
> desires of photo locations. Simply because rats and me are not in any way
> compatible.  It's still an interesting picture. But me saying, "I'm glad
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> was you and not me" still stands. :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina
> Manley
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:20 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: Rat Temple
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> At 07:11 PM 3/9/2008, you wrote:
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> >Hi Tina,
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> >Interesting photo to say the least. Sorry dear but when I opened it I
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> praying!
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> >AAAAccccckkkkkkk! Rats!
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> Thanks, Ted -
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> Well, they told me that one of the amazing things about this rat
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> temple was there was absolutely no smell of rats whatsoever and that
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> the number of rats remained the same all the time in spite of natural
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> It really and truly did not smell like what I thought it would.  (I
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> was holding my breath most of the time) but we did have to take off
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> our shoes and walk in sock feet (those socks have been
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> incinerated)  BUT most of the devout were walking barefoot so the
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> rats could climb on their feet.  It's considered even better if you
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> get rat saliva on you and I do have photos of a mother smearing rat
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> saliva on her child's face, but, unless you knew what was going on,
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> What is strange to me is that whenever I work on these photos, I
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> smell rats!!  Amazing what the power of suggestion can do.  I'm
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> almost finished with the rat temple, thank goodness.  My appetite has
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> been off for a couple of days!!
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