Photo of the Week Captions

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Here are the captions for this week's featured photographs, located

on the group's splash page, just below the Sri Chakra:

 

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1. An unattributed " Women's Day " ad from India.

 

Mother's Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world,

with the largest number of countries observing it on the second

Sunday in May: Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas,

Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil,

Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Croatia, Curaçao, Czech

Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece,

Grenada, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan,

Latvia, Malta, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru,

Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa,

Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United

States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.

 

One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother

worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship — which kept a festival to

Cybele, a great mother of gods, and (mythology), the wife of Cronus;

was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually

in Rome itself from the Ides of March (March 15 to March 18). The

Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to

Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.

 

2. Lead dancer Tai Lihua, with her 20 other deaf and mute partners,

perform the " Thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy, " in China's Hebei

province. April 29, 2007. Agence France-Presse Published:23:33 IST

(29/4/2007)