The dance helps the devotees appeal to Muruga for divine assistance or give thanks for his help.
The greatest sight is the kavadi carriers, the devotees who subject themselves to seemingly masochistic acts as fulfilment for answered prayers.
But Lund is betting on his Mindstorms minions--the devotees.
Much of his reasoning will be familiar to the devotees of anti-clerical writers such as Voltaire or openly godless ones such as Russell, but the overall structure of his approach is new.
If you talk to the devotees of the free services, whether Napster or its sons and daughters, maybe 20% or 25% of the people are using them to get music they can't get any other way--like a U2 cover of a Bob Dylan song.
This is because the largest Serbian opposition group, the ultranationalist Radical Party, has imploded thanks to an internal war between the devotees of Vojislav Seselj, currently standing trial for war crimes at the United Nations' tribunal in The Hague, and the allies of the more pragmatic Tomislav Nikolic, who led the party within Serbia.
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But Mr Nunnelly, like all the Bigfoot devotees I met in Kentucky, is not worried about the mockery of sceptics and non-believers.
Members of the Fourth Estate and devotees of the First Amendment, take a bow.
And it was still not time for the ordinary devotees to have their turn.
However, strategy enthusiasts, jaded gamers looking for a change of scene, and fans of the original (or devotees of the criminally neglected PC classic Hostile Waters, from which it draws heavily) should definitely take a look.
The demo will also provide access to the cooperative multiplayer mode, which has been the source of considerable anxiety by devotees of the traditional BioWare single-player experience, but not until February 17.
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And while it says here that San Antonio-based Whataburger is unquestionably the greatest fast food chain in the world, California-based In-N-Out Burger devotees the world over would at least in this instance wrongly make the case for the latter.
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Mr. van Wyck sometimes creates a party theme pegged to the show to get even non-devotees into the viewing spirit.
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"I can't wait to get on it, " said Barbara Lippincott, who's taken 160 cruises on Royal Caribbean and was among a number of the company's devotees at a Manhattan event unveiling the ship's features.
The early 90s were a dire time for cider devotees - the drink was out of fashion, and local farmers were competing to sell off their orchards.
The arrival of the phones, impressive as they may be, now puts the pressure on a single question: Are the phones good enough to keep the 79 million existing BlackBerry users from leaving the fold, or even to lure Android and iOS devotees to the platform?
The Trimbakeshwar area is so narrow that the throng of ordinary devotees appeared to be finding it hard to perform the ritual.
But when the last descendant of the Houbigant family fell ill in the 1980s and began selling off the perfume brands, Michele Perris and his relatives, longtime devotees of the French brand, decided they had better start buying them.
Granted, any thematic gathering stands a chance of widening the gulf between devotees and dilettantes.
Even some of the Big Society's devotees in Number 10 admit that the upbeat message of mutual reliance has got lost in the rows over deficit reduction, and the consequences for charities and others that depend on local councils for money.
The leaders, Generals George Casey and John Abizaid, have been what you might call devotees of the light footprint school, which was we should have relatively few troops, hand authority over the Iraqis as quickly as possible.
Anyone can visit the temple and walk through, but only devotees are allowed past the heavy gilded door guarding the room where the tooth is held.
Far removed from the excesses of the shiny gurus and their rich devotees, these ordinary pilgrims make the Kumbh Mela a truly extraordinary event of faith.
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Musical saws were particularly popular in the U.S. during the 1920s and '30s, and even though "mountain music" has dwindled in popularity, devotees still use the tool to produce haunting melodies.
But even as Dogpatch booms, devotees say the district still feels like a small town within the city.
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Other devotees of the cult favorite say they're not surprised by the quick Web action.
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Lord's, a magnificent cricket ground in north London's leafy St John's Wood district, is considered among devotees as the "home of cricket".
They are both from upstate New York, lifelong devotees of the outdoors, having spent their childhoods hunting, fishing and camping.
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