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Football fever grips Sadhus at Ambubachi Mela, Guwahati

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Sadhus at Kamakhya Temple for Ambubachi Mela. (Pics by: Indian Express) Ambubachi Mela has already started in Guwahati, Assam.  The  Ambubachi Mela  is the most important  meal  celebrated in the  Kamakhya Temple  in  Guwahati ,  Assam .  This yearly Mela is celebrated during the  monsoon  season  that happens to fall during the Assamese month  Ahaar , around the middle of June,  when the  Brahmaputra river  is in spate. It is the celebration of the yearly  menstruation  course of goddess  Kamakhya .  It is believed that the presiding goddess of the temple, Devi Kamakhya, the Mother  Shakti , goes through her annual cycle of  menstruation  during this time stretch.  It is also believed that during the monsoon rains the creative and nurturing power of the 'menses of  Mother Earth  becomes accessible to devotees at this site during the meal. There is no idol of the presiding deity but she is worshipped in the form of a  yoni -like stone instead over which a natural spring fl