Devotees carry idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, on vehicles as they proceed toward the sea for its immersion during the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival, September 15, 2013. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.