Mayana Kollai
Mayana Kollai | |
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Observed by | Shaktism Hindus |
Date | Decided by the Hindu calendar |
Frequency | Annual |
Mayana Kollai is a festival celebrated after
Parvathi pleaded her brother the Protector god Vishnu for a solution. He came up to the idea to trick brahma's head and told her sister this "My dear sister, go to Thandakarunyam graveyard with your husband and make a pond there named "Agni kula theertham" and prepare a tasty food made by Agathi keerai (Hummingbird tree leaves) and blood of chicken and serve that food to kabala and then throw the food everywhere in the graveyard. The kabala will come down, leaving Shiva's hand, to eat the food. Then take your husband to the pond and clean him with that water so that it will not catch your husbands hand.Parvathi follows her borthers instruction and frees kabala from her husband. Since he was sanctified by the water of the pond, it could not approach him and in turn got attached to parvathi. Parvathi amassing powers of sakthi in a cosmic dance later destroys kabala by sheer scale and ferocity by brushing under her right foot. This Fierce form is called as Angara Rubam and She herself was later named to be Angalaamman. The temple in Kaveripattinam is dedicated in memory of this form of parvathi, a form where a "devout wife of god flails an evil obsessed head of a god" and relieves her husband from his curse. ([1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
History
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References
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- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ^ "Mayana Kollai festival : Thousands of devotees throng graveyards to appease deity". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ^ அ.கண்ணதாசன். "மேல்மலையனூர் மாசி மயானக்கொள்ளைத் திருவிழா - சிறப்புகள் என்ன, எப்போது நடக்கிறது?". vikatan.com/ (in Tamil). Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ^ "Suzhal: Great performances in a visually compelling whodunit". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-06-19.