Hindus from all over Tenerife, although mostly from the south of the island, met yesterday at Costa Adeje to celebrate one more year the arrival of spring, which in this religion originating from India is celebrated with a great festival of colors called Holi.
Not even the heat, around 30 degrees during the six hours it lasted -from noon to six in the afternoon- dampened the spirits of the Indians, tourists and many Tenerife residents who usually sign up for a ceremony every year singular, full of color and “good vibes”, despite the fact that it all ends with hours under the shower to get rid of the paint and colored powder that was thrown yesterday to turn the parking lot on Avenida de Moscú into a great living rainbow, involving about two thousand people.
Holi was organized by the Tenerife South Hindu Association and ST events and had the collaboration of the Adeje City Council. It was not only a festival of colours, in the form of paint or powder, but it also had an appointment with different Indian and local DJs, typical Hindu dances, artificial showers, a foam party and food from different countries, obviously, especially from India.
The Holi celebration essentially consists of throwing brightly colored powders and colored water as a symbol of happiness for the arrival of spring, trying to emulate the joyful colors of the flowers that will be born during the coming season. The colors most used were yesterday black, blue, red, pink, purple and white.
The Holi festival, which is also called Rangwali Holi or Dhulhenduna, one of the most amazing images in India. So much so that the first European traders and the British colonizers already left written testimonies in the 17th century. It happens all over the country: a cloud of color rises over a crowd that dances and waves happily. Colored powders are thrown freely, bodies and clothes are completely covered by pigments.
It is Holi, the festival of colors, which is celebrated every year around the months of March and April in India and Nepal. That day, in most Indian and Nepalese towns, people of different castes, social conditions, religions and ages gather with a single objective: to have a good time, although initially the ceremony, after a bonfire, began in a fight between good and evil. evil.
Now, the party has ceased to be religious to be pagan, similar to what happens with our Carnival, perhaps for this reason almost so many Tenerife residents gathered yesterday, still eager to continue partying, on this occasion arriving point blank and going out dressed in colors Spring is here.
