More Bulls, More Idols, More of the Everyday

Sacred here - he goes where he wants, eats what he wants and if someone
showed any type of cruelty towards him ... there would likely be
consequences (not for the bull :-))

The cows/bulls are literally everywhere.  In the streets - in the alleys - in the city and in the country.

One of the guys from the US here that grew up on a ranch in Texas tell us that the attitude of these livestock is quite unique.  They 'know' that there is no danger - but further than that ... there is an arrogance about the animals.  We walk right beside them and treat them like they are just another pedestrian ... but it's just quite different to drive around them.  Just need to dodge the organics.

Idols are everywhere

Part of the sad thing is just that - the organics.  The smells and sanitation of the city are undoubtedly 'held' in place because of the place in the society that these animals hold.  I'm a business consultant that generally tries to 'improve' things ... so you can imagine what's going through my mind.

• Can't remove the cows - distribute small pooper scoopers (scratch that - large pooper scoopers)
• Can't control the traffic - introduce stop signs (wow, that's really really funny)
• The streets aren't wide enough - parts of the city are 1,000's of years old ... sacred ... and completely untouchable
• Too crowded - too many people.  Welcome to a country where the population exceeds 1 billion.

In McDonalds here the entire menu is free of beef / pork.  :-)  It looks like a menu in Chick-fil-a.

People stop to worship
(they are actively worshiped)

These from the old city are very old

This idol has been given clothes
to wear - look closely at his face

Part of the 'problem' with showing these pictures is that there's no real way for a reader in the states / elsewhere to really understand the sounds, the smells, and the culture that are here.  Bells resound all the time - waking up and calling the gods.  Yesterday we went to a town in the north and someone had put strings around a tree (indicating a holy site) and 30 - 40 people worshiped there with candles & small statues.  Most of them were women.