Click to play videoGuwahati: Every year for two days, Guwahati's Kanu Rajbonshi lives a different life.
As he walks all the way to the Kamakhya temple, a crowd follows him in reverence.
Kanu is one among the thirty-two Deodhani dancers, who are believed to be human incarnates of the Gods.
"My son became a Deodhani six years ago, after God ordered him to be one in his dreams. But I do not know about what he does during the Deodhani days. He leaves home for a month," says mother of a Deodhani dancer, Subala Das.
During the Deodhani festival it is believed that the Gods possess the dancers and communicate through them.
Smeared in vermilion and amidst collective drum-beats, the dancers get into a trance.
"They don't remain normal human beings during the festival, they become one of the Gods. They just eat fruits and blood of the sacrificial animals. This has been going on since the ancient times in Kamakhya temple," says secretary of Kamakhya temple, Navakanta Sharma.
Kanu is offered a sacrificial pigeon and he eats the bird alive.
The spectacle continues for two days during which thousands come from all over to offer prayers to the dancers and go back confident that the gods will grant their wishes.
The Deodhanis too go back to their daily lives only to come back next year.
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