********** PONGAL FESTIVAL ********** Pongal is a four days long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu. celebration including drawing of Kolam , Swinging & Cooking of delicious Pongal. Pongal is the only festival o Hindu that follows a Solar Calendar and is celebrated on the fourteenth of January every year and marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan - suns journey northwards. The word Pongal means overflowing in Tamil. On the festive day, as ritual. people boil milk in new pots, decorate their homes with banana and mango leaves and also draw decorative patterns rangoli using rice , cardamom , jaggery , raisins , green gram and cashew nuts is offered to Surya. First day of the four day long festival..Bhogi festival is dedicated to Lord Indra - the Rain God. On the same day unused things at home are thrown into a fire made of wood and cow-dung cakes. On the second day people boil rice in milk in new pots and decorate their homes. Third day - Mattu Pongal , dedicated to cows. The bovines are decorated with bells, flowers and beads and fed with Pongal. An annual bull-fight festival, Jallikkattu is also celebrated as part of Pongal in Tamil Nadu. The final day of the festival Kannum Pongal, leftover are served on a turmeric leaf along with ordinary rice, betel beans, betel nuts, turmeric leaves, plantains and two pieces of sugercane.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:57:17 +0000
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