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The juggernaut: a crushing force. During the 14th century, British travelers to the JagannAth temple in Puri, India first witnessed and recorded the Ratha Yatra; their writings describe religious devotees throwing themselves under massive chariot wheels in hopes of attaining salvation via a spiritual death. (See the film: "Logan's Run" for a futuristic Juggernaut festivity.) Today the wooden chariots are 45-feet high and carry the statues of JagannAth and his siblings, Subhadra and Balabhadra, along a track from temple to garden shrine, to be worshipped and idolized. Every year thousands of brahmins, shudras, muslims and tourists attend the Ratha Yatra; many artisans and artists also visit to build the chariots, paint them, weave fabric covers. Some historians consider the zealot deaths accidental.