Every year, devotees throw goats, chickens and vegetables over the volcano’s rim to please their gods. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia – Thousands of Hindu worshippers scaled an active Indonesian volcano on Monday to toss livestock, food and other offerings into its smoking crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony.
Mr Slamet, a 40-year-old farmer who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, brought a baby cow as an offering. Some villagers who do not belong to the Tengger tribe took to the crater’s steep slopes equipped with nets in an attempt to intercept offerings thrown into the abyss and avoid them going to waste.
Legend has it that Princess Roro Anteng and her husband, unable to bear children after years of marriage, begged the gods for help.
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