The arrangements of beautifully created puppets are the one of the attractions of the Shigmo festival. It creates the environment of the divine colourful festival. Such arrangements are decorated at the entrance of every town of Goa during Shigmotsav.

Artists creating a puppet of ten headed Ravana.
It is a festive and colourful occasion for which thousands of devotees take part. They create puppets of the characters from the Hindu mythology to participate in the Shigmo parade. According to the Hindu mythology, Goa is also known as the land of the Gods and with good reasons. There are hundreds of Gods and Goddesses with differing traditions, rituals and names, adored in Goa. Most of these have remained unchanged over the centuries while others have evolved with the circumstances and changing times.

The artists engaged in detailing the puppet for the parade of Shigmo.
The creation of the floats and the puppets to participate in the parade begin much earlier. Artists put all their skills and ideations in the detailing of the characters exactly as mentioned in the Hindu mythology. The artists work hard to make it look attractive even by maintaining the real look and feel of the character. Use of plaster of Paris and polystyrene makes it light in weight that eases the movement of mobile puppets.

Float carrying the mobile puppets of unusual gesture of Nandi in the battlefield with behemoths.
One gets to enjoy watching the float with the characters in the procession of Shigmotsav. Such a float carries its own identity and uniqueness.

The float carrying Ravana the king of Lanka, this particular scenario is from Ramayana while Ravana gets ready to fight with Rama. The ideas are generated by studying and understanding the Hindu mythology. Also the characters mentioned in each of the stories of it are included.

This is one of the participants wearing makeup of Sai Baba in the parade.
A dramatic display of Goan Hindu ethnicity and mythology is on show at the annual Shigmotsav parade held in Panjim's 18th June Road.

This is one of the participants dressed up like the Lord Hanuman from the Indian mythology in Shigmotsav procession.
Traditional folk dances, brightly dressed street-dancers, float depiction mythological events, music instruments, headgear, masks form part of the exciting parade. People get immersed in this festival and celebrate the colourful Shigmotsav.

Folk dances are performed to the heavy bets of the Dhol and Tasha (Huge Drums) Dressed up in the traditional costumes; various folk groups consisting of women and men dancers give vibrant performances of various dances. These are interspersed with the groups that move along the route with their traditional Goan drums.

Float carrying a scenario from Indian Mythology, Saint Eknath flying with Garuda to the heaven. The huge puppets are not only of god or goddess; in these floats there is each and every supporting character from the mythical stories of India.

The float depicts the story of Ramayana, Hanuman the monkey god takes the lead while making a bridge to Lanka to rescue Sita and fight with Ravana. The detailing has been done in a very creative manner which justifies the real characters from the story of Ramayana.

The traditional dancers wear variety of costumes to perform folk dances like Ghode Modni in the contemporary Shigmotsav, which is celebrated with spectacular Shigmotsav parade where people participate from Different sections of Goa.

The float is carrying the death god Yama with his followers. The biggest attraction of Shigmotsav is to enjoy the procession of highly creative floats, decorated with different characters from Hindu Mythology. These mobile puppets are carried in trucks around the town till mid of the night and one float carries minimum twenty-five people. People from all over the world come to Goa to see this festival.