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Cultural Facilitation

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For my Cultural Facilitation Project I decided to recreate the Planning the Relief at Mammallapuram activity. On October 14 around 3:20 PM I arranged a small group gathering with my friends Vikas, Jackie, Wen, and Hannah at my house to help me with my project, the activity lasted until 5:00 PM. Before starting the activity, I had my participants read the text we had to read for our class, “Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the the Large Relief at Mamallapuram” by Pandma Kaima and view the picture of the relief as we did for our class assignment. My purpose of doing this was so that my participants could get an idea of what they were going to do the activity on rather than just telling them to start going into the activity without …show more content…

Hindus used these practices as a way to reflect on the stories of the gods such as Shiva and how they protected the earth and helped the people. For instance, how the text describes Shiva using his hair to break Ganga’s fall so she wouldn’t destroy the earth as she fell. Kamal writes, “Shiva again intervened, catching the falling river in a lock of his matter hair where she wandered for years until the energy of her fall was spent. She trickled out gently, purifying and fructifying the earth. The multitudes of creation witnessed and celebrated her descent.” (RDR, pg 58) These practices also left an indent in history providing people from different generations and generations ahead a view into the Hindu culture and their beliefs. It has a large impact on the social web because it not only gives people a visual from of Hindu culture but also stimulates them to be curious about it. The relief is a visual structure of Hindu culture and beliefs and people who visit it begin to ponder behind the meaning of the relief. As Padma Kamal writes in, “Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the the Large Relief at Mamallapuram” people who visit the relief look at it with curiosity and those who have studied it still don’t have a full understanding behind the stories on the relief. She states that, “It seems quite likely that a single intellect – even one trained to look for dhvani [puns] – cannot exhaust the panoply of references already located in this relief. The relief’s unfinished state invites us to consider that yet other voices may have been

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