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Festivals
She stands beside Ganesha in a red-bordered saree, and almost everyone gets her wrong.
Before sunrise on Saptami, something is carried down to the river.
It is not an image and it is not a person. It is a bundle of nine plants, tied together with a creeper, bathed in the river, dressed in a white saree with a red border, and carried back to stand beside the Goddess for the rest of the festival.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.