Hanuman Arrives on Kauai: CHAPTER TWO

After a 9,000 mile sea voyage, Hanuman reach the Kauai shores and was brought up the hill on July 9, 2013. He was carefully taken down from the truck and laid in a display area on the Northwest corner of Iraivan Temple. The elephants arrived on the same truck, eager to get out of their shipping cages and move about. Hanuman would sit here in this spot for over three years. He thought he was waiting to be installed, to go from this on-my-back resting position, to the upright stance for which he was designed. But that was not what happened, as Chapter Three reveals.

Hanuman arrives after a long journey from South India.

Along with a female elephant and her calf, and a male elephant holding a globe in his trunk to represent the universality of Saivism.

He does look a little travel weary here. Take note of the white foam he is resting on. It becomes part of the tale.

He geets his first glimpse of Iraivan.

Carefully! There are many years of human craftsmanship there.

Leveling the steel pallet.

Such eloquent carving. This is the fabric draped around his waist.

The elephants before they were released.

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