Steel Hooks That Will Be Inserted In The Devotees Back To Pull Cars, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
This piercing is very tough , much tougher than piercing the cheeks with the 21 feet steel rods , first ash is put on the back to desensitize pain , it is ash with camphor,, than two marks are made on the back where the hooks will be inserted ..
The hooks are pushed into butter or inserted into aloevera for smooth lubrication .. the devotee is asked to put a lime in his mouth to reduce the pain..and it takes 4 to 5 guys to insert one hook and than the other hook , now the human horse of Goddess Marriammen is ready to pull a car tempo or a rickhsha or a heavy basket of coconuts with the hooks attached to them with a nyolon rope and thus barefeet they cover the distance from the beach road back to the Marriammen Temple Macchimar Colony Mahim..via the St Michael Church Mori road ..
