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Water: The Sacred Feminine

Water is the most essential of all offerings and is used daily in all Hindu households to wash the family icons before worship. Spoons decorated with symbols and images of the deities are used to ladle holy water and other sacred substances from special containers.

Shiva patra (holy water vessel)
Mala (prayer beads)
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