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The funny thing is that idolators did worship statues, but they didn't exactly do this. Because those giant Ganesh statues clearly don't dissolve well in the water, so they tend to all wash up on the beach the next dayYou know, I once wondered what Idolators looked like as described in the bible. Turns out, it described Jeets to a T.
As a result they send in cleaning crews to scour the beach and even dredge parts of the sea bed, and all the Ganesh idols get unceremoniously thrown into a skip and dumped.... although some manage to float off to sea
The entire point of this Ganesh ritual is the statue is supposed to dissolve into the water, so you'd think it'd be blasphemous to see their venerated idols from the day before getting loaded into a skip. After all most religions usually do have some aspect of preventing holy items being profaned, often through burning (a worn out Qu'ran, an old Ofuda) or burying (a broken rosary, a damaged Torah). But once the ritual has concluded with immersion into the water, Ganesh is no longer viewed as inhabiting the statue. It's basically just a corpse, and I suppose they do tend to dump their corpses into a river and leave them there. This does raise the question why they couldn't just dunk the Ganesh statue in some water and then fish it back out and throw it away, but I think it's probably the case that they stop thinking about the statue once they've dumped it in there.