This prayer offering has 13 Vratha Kathas, one for each month and the 13th story is for 'athika' (The Hindu calendar has one extra month every 4 years).

For the people of the mesas corn is sustenance, ceremonial object, prayer offering, symbol, and sentient being unto itself.

A large pole is hung with green banners and has had many nails hammered into it as prayer offerings.

Each performer represents a particular deity and is sponsored by devotees as a prayer offering.

Water caltrop has been an important food for worship as prayer offerings since the Chinese Zhou Dynasty.

They include holy bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water (Vratta), standing in water for long periods of time, and offering prashad (prayer offerings) and aragh to the setting and rising sun.

Native Americans also go to Bighorn to offer thanks for the creation that sustains them, placing a buffalo skull on the center cairn as a prayer offering.

Besides these prayer offerings, people also come here for removal of obstacles to marriage etc.

The shrine's large and attractive arched bridge is just one of the features enjoyed by the three million visitors who come to make prayer offerings on the first three days of the New Year.

The arathi (prayer offering) for the deity can be seen by devotees only for seven times during the day.