The Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival we know here in Malaysia and in Singapore celebrates light as an offering, a precious good of sorts, to give thanks for a good harvest. This festival too commemorates light defying darkness, good prevailing over evil. The tradition of decorating evergreen trees with candles at night symbolises Christ bringing light, or good, to the world. Here again, the main theme being the good of light that thwarts the evil that hides in darkness. Yet greed aside, Deepavali shares the common theme of light that conquers dark, good that overrides evil with countless other traditions rooted in the human spirit.

Source: New Strait Times October 25, 2019 15:56 UTC