Indian cow dung festival celebrates end to Diwali

Dozens of exuberant villagers scoop up handfuls of cow dung this week for the Gorehabba festival, a local conclusion to India’s most important festival, Diwali. The festival is unique to a village where locals believe their god — Beereshwara Swamy — was born in cow excrement. Some Hindus believe cows and everything they produce is sacred and purifying.