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KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 12/13/20202020-12-13KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 12/26/20202020-12-26A bare-chested priest in white dhoti with a black head covering and face mask performs aarti before a shrine of decorated murti figures. He holds a multi-tiered brass aarti lamp with flames raised toward the deities. The central seated figure wears an orange and red decorated head covering, with garlands of marigolds and white flowers. Behind him stand gilded and painted deity figures, including one in yellow and one in purple garments, a figure with a long black beard and red turban, and a golden arch. Red curtains hang in the background, and orange cloth covers the altar platform.2020-12-21A photograph inside a temple shrine. In the foreground, a shaved-headed priest with long dreadlocks wears an orange dhoti and shawl, white sacred markings on his arms and body, and a rudraksha mala, raising a lit aarti lamp with one hand toward the altar. On the altar stands a central dark murti draped in a red and purple cloth with a crown, garlanded with yellow and orange marigolds, flanked by golden-robed and crowned deity figures and a bearded figure in red headwear with rudraksha necklaces. A red curtain and gold arch frame the scene. The priest is a physical person; the altar figures are statues.2020-12-04KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 12/13/20202020-12-13A temple shrine with a golden arch and red curtains holds a group of golden-hued deity murtis draped in flower garlands. The central seated figure wears a red shawl and a tilaka, with a red and gold cloth and a pink garland around the base. Two standing figures flank it on the sides, one in yellow and pink clothing and one in brown robes with a red turban, both holding their hands raised in blessing. Behind them, a larger seated pair holds a trident and wears pink and red garments. In the foreground, a priest with long hair and rudraksha malas, dressed in orange cloth, extends his hands toward the central murti, performing a puja with oil lamps on silver stands beside him.2021-01-02Inside a temple shrine, a shirtless priest in white dhoti with a gold border and a blue face mask waves a flame lamp toward a black stone deity murti covered in garlands of white and yellow flowers and a purple silk cloth. Behind it stand gold-coloured statues: a deity with a trident and crown, a goddess in a yellow sari with a garland, and a bearded sage holding a hand up in blessing wearing a rudraksha-style mala, with a smaller purple-clad figure below. Red curtains hang in the background.2020-12-20KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 1/18/20212021-01-18Photograph of a temple shrine with gold-framed arch and red curtains. Central deity murti draped in pink and magenta silk, adorned with white and yellow flower garlands, gold necklaces and a silver-embroidered bodice, with a large decorated face mask at its top. Flanking statues include a figure in a tall crown on the left, a bearded figure in a maroon turban and rudraksha-style beads with a raised hand on the right, and a small pink-clad figure at the base. A bare-backed person in white dhoti with white sacred markings on the arm raises a lit oil lamp or aarti at the left edge. Statues only; no identifiable living person is shown in the shrine.2021-02-01KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 1/10/20212021-01-10A priest in saffron-orange cloth and a rudraksha mala performs aarti with a multi-wick brass lamp before a deity murti dressed in a purple silk garment and garlanded with white and yellow flowers. Behind the central figure, larger golden murtis of deities stand before an ornate gilded arch with a red curtain backdrop. The priest wears a white face mask and white ash markings on his arms. A small figure in a pink sari stands on a side pedestal, and a bearded golden figure in a turban is garlanded at the right. Two small brass oil lamps sit at the base of the altar.2021-01-31KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 1/4/20212021-01-04