Nov 11, 2007

Happy gods

The building is totally a temporary construction. Behind this huge pantheon is just a bundle of wooden or metal beams. There are no hall, nave, altar, even no place fo monks.
The gods are fancy however. Some are hanging and moving by wind. Some are from ancient stories, some are captured from legends. Most are based on Taoism with folk religion. I am not capable to distinguish them of course even though I've visited so many temples in Taiwan.
Nobody was there when I went there. No clergy, no pilgrim. Only abandoned gods were moving by wind wearing smile, all the time, maybe forever.

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