Sunday, October 4, 2015

Attukal Pongala festival

Faith and beliefs during the Pongala festival celebrated at the famous Attukal Bhagavathi temple in Kerala's capital city of Thiruvananthapuram. The festival entered the Guinness verifications for person the largest single grouping of women for a religious activity.

Pongala is a ritualistic presenting of a sweet dish consisting of rice porridge, sweet brown molasses, coconut gratings, nuts and raisins. Gives offer pongala to appease the presiding deity of the temple - the Goddess - popularly known as Attukalamma.This festival celebrate in women’s and wear new clothes.

Only women are allowed to join in the Pongala ceremony. Right from the night before the Pongala day, thousands of women, in spite of of spiritual faith, gather at the temple property and on either side of the roads leading to the shrine, to make the Pongala offering. 

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