I just returned from a short trip to my hometown - ONATTUKARA- where I was able to attend two hilarious temple festivals. One of them was Thaipooya Kaavadiyattom at Sri Subramanyaswamy Temple, Cherianad where 900+ kaavadis participated. It was a mind blowing occasion of a large crowd of people and kaavadis marching and dancing to the tune of of various types of drum beats. It was after a long interval of over 30 years that I witnessed such a beautiful festival.
Another one was Pakalpooram at Kattuvallil Mahadeva Temple, the first of its kind in Onattukara. Starting around 5pm with twelve caparisoned elephants lining up, with Gajakesari Thechikattukavu Ramachandran in the middle, lifting-up his head to the maximum height. It is told that he is crowned the tallest elephant in Asia. The elephants as well as the crowd enjoyed and swayed their heads to the tune of Thayambaka, which lasted for a couple of hours.
Needless to mention, our culture and heritage is the best in the world. People from all walks of life attended both the above festivals irrespective of their religion and beliefs. The uniqueness of our festivals are that we proclaim unity in diversity.
Have a good day!!
2 comments:
I believe, it is high time that the temple authorities rethink about lining up these wild animals, the elephants, with the intention to add flavour to kerala 'culture'.
Day by day we see in the media how they cause havoc to the public life; bread winners to families are mutilated or annihilated by these animals. They belong to the forest. Honestly, how are they adding flavour to kerla culture, I wonder :)
Thaks MKERALAM for your valuable comments.
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