God of Anger

Shobu reaches the market and even before he starts to soak in the scenes, remembering something, he abruptly stops, and starts walking towards a different part of town with a great sense of urgency.

He passes several houses and comes to a quite corner to what seems like a small shrine. Its only when he is right in front of it, does he manage to quieten himself. He kneels down to face the small shrine. Inside the wooden walls of the shrine is an idol of a deity. The idol wears a head dress. Its face carries an expression of anger and from the neck down it is dressed in a red frock-like dress. No ones knows what the idol symbolised but for him, it was the God of anger — Pichach.

Shobu was self-made and a confident man. His occupation required him to say things as they were; Shobu had to be impolite to many people and they would often get angry. Shobu would notice their resentment without judgement; as if it were not addressed at him and move on. He believed that he carried their bad energy inside him. That is why, every now and then he made it a point to visit the shrine and would allow Pichach to swallow the accumulated bad vibes he carried and dissipate it through the red dress it wore.

After spending some quite minutes in contemplation, Shobu stands up slowly and starts making his way back to the market. The moments of silence in front of Pichach had calmed him down and now his steps were studied and his pace, much slower.

The village was otherwise a quite place except for the market. As Shobu made his way to the market, the level of noise gradually increased and as he entered the market square, the buzz of people and animals moving and shoppers haggling created a noise, just like any local market.

To be continued…