India is mystical in strange ways. It is a land of beliefs. And it is unabashedly unapologetic about it.
Long before modern man created ideology and its supporting fanatic casts, we believed in nature as the all-encompassing power. Even to this date, in some senses we do. To an outsider, we seem to defy logic and rationale. We have thousands of gods and worship everything, even trees and animals. Every part of this ancient land has its own beliefs, traditions that live on, and legends that survive to this day.
A few kilometers from Almora, in Uttarakhand, in the north of India, such a legend lives on. Deified, revered, and prayed to by the locals. Like the myriad tales that abound in this land, this one is as different as the others. The story goes that, born to a Queen and cast away into a river after birth by the other wives of the king, Golu as he is called, returned to be crowned as Golu Devta....
Read more of this interesting temple here....
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