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No one recognises the richness of their (the tribals’) rituals, the great power of being possessed by God, the intensity of belief, even the beauty of dancing, or being in a trance, as cultural values. Eberhard Fischer & Haku Shah
Mena dev kal dharti, dev mogra, dharma dharti, helu pandar, dev mogi, puja padase
(God of iron, god from wood, god of copper, god from cow-dung,
Black earth, god crocodile, sacred earth, cold queen, goddess crocodile:
Please accept our worship) Tribal song sung at the time of installing a crocodile-god’s image
Placing the soul on a stone (khatru mokavenu) All photographs were taken by Eberhard Fischer during field-work in 1969