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Hindu worship - Coggle Diagram

- - - - to honor the chosen main deity
    - - vehicle of the deity - vahana
        
        mandap - entrance hall
        
        antarala
        
        inner shrine
        
        with circumambulation path
        
        with shikara spire
  - - - chosen family deity
        
        Ganesha is popular
        
        represents fortune
    - - an often daily ritual
        
        shrine room cleaned & mother puts on clean clothes, then pours water over murti & dresses it
        
        mother puts a spot of kum-kum powder on her, the murti’s and other present family members’ foreheads, then prays
        
        makes offerings: flower petals, incense sticks. Fresh fruit to remind worshippers that everything comes from God and should be thankful.
        
        arti lamp lit & waved in front of murti, mother places hands over lamp, over eyes & head