"Durga Puja also involves home worship, in which wealthier houses can afford their own statues, and Durga is welcomed in a more personal manner as the daughter of the household who has come for a visit. Because a daughter would often leave have her natal family at a very early age in an arranged marriage in which she went to live with her husband’s family there was a great sense of loss on the part of both the daughter and the parents. Durga Puja represents the time that the daughter could return to her parent’s house and was a time for happiness and reunion. Families welcome their own married daughters by honouring and worshipping Durga. When Durga (and daughter] leave, at the end of the festival, the married women of the family or neighbourhood typically gather in the household and walk around the goddess in a circle making the noise of ululation (a thrilling sound of farewell), and then wipe of the goddess’s tears with betel leaves (she cries because she is leaving her loving household). She is offered consecrated food and red kumkum powder, symbolizing her return to married life."
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