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Holi is a two-day Hindu festival commemorating spring, love, and new life. Originating in India, the event is spectacular and colourful.
It's perhaps most well known for festival-goers smearing each other with paint and brightly coloured water on the streets. On the first day, people gather around a bonfire to celebrate the triumph of good over evil.
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They throw roasting grains, popcorn, coconut and chickpeas onto the bonfire. The second day is when people celebrate by pelting each other with a colourful, perfumed powder called gulal and soaked with water pistols.
Holi is also known as the Festival of Love, the Festival of Colours and the Festival of Spring.
There are two Hindu legends that are thought to contribute to the meaning of Holi. The first revolves around demon siblings Hiranyakashipu and Holika. Hiranyakashipu believed he should be worshipped because he was invincible. But his son Prahlada remained loyal to the Hindu god Vishnu.
So Hiranyakashipu came up with a plan to kill his son, with the help of sister Holika - Prahlada’s aunt. She took Prahlada into a bonfire but her magic cloak, which protected her from the flames, flew off her and onto him.
Holika was killed and Prahlada was saved. Hiranyakashipu, meanwhile, got his just desserts when Vishnu appeared as a half-human, half-lion and destroyed him with his claws. It is thought that the festival takes its name from Holika - and the story is the reason why the first evening takes place around a bonfire.
The second legend is believed to explain the festivities on day two - it revolves around the Hindu god Krishna, who was self-conscious of his dark blue skin.
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