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There is a festival here of 10 days where each day the womans wear a specific colour related to the goddess to which the day is dedicated to

@mur2501 @thor If found today this beautiful grasshopper in a documentary about Indian Gypsies, but in fact this is the origin of all Gypsies so should say Gypsies in india (?), even their flag looks like indian one with the wheel in the center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUYGRn3W9Q

@popolon @thor
I watched it all :ablobcatheartsqueeze:
Also didn't understand what you said about calling gypsies above

@mur2501 @thor I I’m not sure about what you don’t understand ? I just said gypsies are originated from India. Flamenco danses make me think to indian danses too, and the flag with the wheel. In Europe we call them Gypsies (in french gitans, ou tziganes), all comme from Egypt, as the come first from by Egypt in Europe. There are other name like the title of the english article Romani, because there are a lot in Romania (the name of the country is after the roman empire has they speak a latin languages with slave influences).

Do you know what are all the pots around the goddess ? Is this something related to alcohol ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people#Origin

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@popolon @thor
Ohh I see
Yup the flag doesn't looks typical European.
If you like you can give the desert state of India, Rajasthan (literally means Land of Kings), a visit.

@mur2501 @thor I would like to visit the whole India in fact, but this need at least one full time year for at least some important spots in several states. I’ve some friends from India (mostly South, Kerala, Tamil Nadu) and Sri Lanka here. Lot of Tamil speaking Srilankese in Paris, and one from Assam. Some friends get 6 month of free-time, and then visited alone India. I started to learn devanagari script, that should be a good start to understand Indian scripts, but this is a long path, more complex than cyrllic, greek or kanas (that can be learn i few days), but probably simplest than Chinese characters, that I learn for years, not really seriously, as a leisure (and try to learn japaneses/korean/vienamese variants the same way). This is not a good method, not work enough on a simple language => less chance to memorize, but beside, one language help to memorize another one when there is a huge common vocabulary.

@mur2501 @popolon @thor
Oh, that makes sense!
Raja = king
sthan = stan (as in Pakistan, Tajikistan etc) = place
I never noticed until now.

@Hyolobrika @mur2501 @thor raga, in english:royal (from french royal), french: roi (king) too, dutch: reijk (royal), portuguese: rei, reis, res, … stan: in english: state, french état (middle french estat, half of english language come from french that come to mainly latin+greek + a bit of german and celtic languages). german/norwegian stad (city is probably related, as first political territories was all made around fortified cities.

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