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    The Goddess and the Mangroves

    Nov 25, 2022 2 minutes

    in the town of Chidambaram in South India, bathing in the sacred (traditional rectangular water basins). Chidambaram’s ancient Tamil name is Thillai, which is also the name of a sacred tree () that grows in the saline waters in the nearby Pichavaram mangrove

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