Featured: Baba Deep Singh Banner
This truck pulling a float in the Yuba City Annual Sikh Parade is adorned with a banner depicting the scribe Baba Deep Singh, an illustrious warrior and martyr.
Baba Deep Singh is best remembered as the head of the Shaheed (martyr) Missal who fought his way for over three miles to reclaim the Golden Temple after receiving a mortal wound which severed his head.
A monument at Darbar Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) marks the place where he fell.
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eeeek! that is quite a banner!
I don’t really enjoy seeing graphic depictions of martyrs, but most religions have them in one form or another.
Headless Baba Deep Singh art is pretty popular, however we have a print in our house where he still has his head which is much nicer!
It’s really a nice colorful banner, too bad his head is off though.
That photo caught me off guard. I don’t usually see the hero with his head cutted off.
Colorful, but rather creepy.
On a funny note, my husband used to work in Yuba City – many years ago.
There are similar statues in churches too.
I posted one in my blog sometime back.
A bit of a graphic banner.
It’s pretty colorful but can be scary to kids.
My entries are here and here.
That’s quite the parade banner!
Wonderful shot of the float and Headless Baba Deep Singh.
My entries:
Moms…Check Nyo
Yummy-as-can-be
Gruesome! Did he appear in history before or after the headless horseman folk tale?
What a sacrifice! Interesting float.
Interesting Question Aquariann. Baba Deep Singh lived from 1682–1757. The author of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving lived from 1783–1859 and author of the Headless Horseman Thomas Mayne Reid lived from1818–1883.
Headless horseman. Nearly Headless Nick. Baba Deep Singh. His feat is a bit more impressive than that of the legendarily dying figure at Marathon.
Such a colorful, cheerful looking banner – until you realize the image is headless! Interesting.
That’s the kind of image that’ll wake you up. Kinda reminds me of that Monty Python skit with knights fighting (’I'm not dead yet!’) But I can see how he would be a legendary warrior in the tradition, known for never giving up….and sacrificing himself for the greater good.
Quite startling to look at… made my stomach do flip-flops. Guess I’m feeling extra sensitive today.
An unusual banner for a parade and the Headless Horseman is also another chilling character.