Durga Puja is the Ashwamayda Yagya of this day and age. The fire sacrifices were elaborate affairs, none more so than the famous horse sacrifice. Those things have disappeared over the centuries in millennia. For example, what we did today,. a Puja, a worship of a deity that's what defines modern Hinduism. That happened over a period of maybe 2000 or more years.
On the auspicious occasion of Durga Puja, Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the significance of the Divine Mother.