Show Tooth Is Honored One of the strangest festivals in inthe inthe inthe the world is observed in Kandy Ceylon Native bands clang mystic music dancers whirl along streets and elephants in gorgeous trappings lumber by all by-all all in honor of a tooth The tooth is thought by Buddhists of Ceylon to be the tooth eye of their god Buddha Supposedly says the Washington Post it was picked off his funeral pyre taken talen to Ceylon 1600 years ago Ordinarily it reposes reposes re re- re I poses in the great temple at Kandy But once a year it is paraded at ata ata attl a tl huge festival or It rides alone encased in a diamond diamond- studded shaped bell-shaped casket on the back of the biggest of the temple elephants Four priests support a canopy over the tooth The elephant elephant ele ele- and the two flanking flanking flanking flank flank- ing it are jewel Lines of or dancers precede and nd follow the relic |