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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Thai Pongal</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Pongal is one of the major festivals for Tamils and often referred to as “thamizhar thirunaaL”. At the beginning of the tamil month “thai” it is celebrated for three days: first day devoted to getting rid of old things (Bhogi), second day involves main Pongal celebrations followed by Maattu Pongal on the third day. Many extend these to a fourth day called “kannip pongal” or “kaaNum pongal” when youngers go around and seek the blessings of the elders. On Bhogi day, a bon fire is lit with all the agricultural and household wastes.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={700}>On the Pongal day, Sun makes its moves towards north/enters Makara raasi (the zodiac sign of Capricorn the goat) and marks the beginning of Uttaraayana punyakaalam. Traditionally, this period is considered an auspicious time and the veteran Bhishma of Mahabharata chose to die during this period. After he fell to the arrows of Arjuna Bhishma used his boon to choose the time of his death. He waited on a bed of arrows to depart from this world only during this period. It is believed that those who die in this period have no rebirth.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={800}>To farmers Pongal marks the beginning of the harvesting season. People take oil bath early in the morning and wear new clothes. Sweet pongal and special sweets are prepared for the occasion. Freshly cut Sugarcane is used for decoratation and later consumption by all.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={800}>Mattu Pongal is a celebration by the agrarian community that thankfully acknowledges the participation of the animals mainly bulls in ploughing the fields and assisting the farmers in raising a good crop. The animals are decorated and are included in some races, both to entertain and to boost their endurance capacity. The festival is known as “Jallikattu”. These races include cock fights, bull fights and ram fights. “Thiruvalluvar Day” is celebrated on this Mattu Pongal day when Tamilnadu Govt announces awards for best tamil literary works.</p>
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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Thai Poosam</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Kartikeya, the son of Shiva and Parvati is worshipped in Tamil Nadu on Thai Pusam. Special Poojas and festivities take place on this Poosam day in the Murugan Temples of Palani, Thiruttani,… and also at the Vandiyur Mariamman Temple (near Madurai). Many temples have the boat festival (theppa utsavam) on this day when the Lord would be coming out over a float on the temple pond. As a mark of dedication and respect, people engage in “fire walk”- walk over a path of burning coal. They exit the path miraculously without being scorched, signifying KartikeyaÕs everlasting protection. A webpage on thaipoosam</p>
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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Maasi Maham</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Celebrated on the Makam day in the tamil month of Maasi. On this day, the deities are taken around in procession to the nearby rivers/tanks/sea for bath. It is an important festival day for Lord Muruga. Once in 12 years, the Maham festival is celebrated in a grand manner (known as Mahamaham) in Kumbakonam.</p>
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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Maha Sivarathri</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Maha Sivarathri is a festival day devoted to Lord Siva, celebrated on the amavaasai day in the month of Maasi. Sivaratri also signifies the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Unlike each Hindu festival which begins with the ritualistic worship of the presiding deity followed by a feast, Sivaratri differs in that one dedicates the entire day of twenty-four hours to the worship of Lord Siva. In the evening people generally go to a nearby temple where in the company of many others they listen to recitals of the legends and their meanings.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={700}>They do not sleep that night, but remain awake. The worship continues throughout the night either by way of chanting the Rudram, singing in eulogy of Lord Siva or/and listening to religious discourses interpreting the legends associated with the festival. Mahasivarathri is celebrated in a grand scale in the temples of Madurai and Rameswaram. In the rituals, leaves of a forest tree Bilva (Aegle marmelos/wood apple) are traditionally used in the services.</p>
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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Ugadi, Telugu New Year’s Day</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>It is believed that the creator of the Hindu pantheon Lord Brahma started creation on this Ugadi day. Indian Mathematician Bhaskaracharya’s calculations proclaimed the Ugadi day from the sunrise on as the beginning of the new year, new month and new day. Special dishes are prepared for the occasion: Mixed rice made with a specially made spiced Tamarind Paste (known as Puliyotharai /pulihora/puliogure in Tamilnadu, Andhra pradesh and Karnataka). As with the Pongal day for Tamils, Ugadi day celebrations are marked by literary discussions, poetry recitations (kavi sammelanam) and recognition of authors of literary works through awards.</p>
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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Sri Rama Navami</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Sri Rama Navami as a festival marks the birth of Lord Rama but is celebrated and worshipped in the form of re-creating the wedding between Lord Rama and Sita by the Hindus seeking well being of all people. Such community celebrations are held in not only Rama temples but also in many other temples too. Usually such ritualistic wedding celebration in homes is quite uncommon. The ritual of Rama’s wedding is concluded with prasadam of ‘vada pappu’ (soaked lentil) and panakam (sherbat made of jaggery dissolved in water to which pepper powder and cardamom powder are added).</p>
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                                <h2 className="text-anime-style-3 heading-center">Panguni Uthiram</h2>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Panguni Uthiram is celebrated as the Wedding day for the Gods/Celestial couples in all temples of Tamilnadu. It is celebrated over a 10-day period in many Murugan Temples. Inscriptions indicate existence of these celebrations as early as that of the Chola King Rajaraja Chola.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>As the name indicates, this day marks the beginning of the Tamil New Year (and the tamil month Chithirai). · Baisakhi The Hindu Solar New Year Day. People bathe in rivers and go to temples to offer puja (worship). Baisakhi is of special significance to the Sikhs. On this day in 1699, Guru Gobind Singh organised them into the ‘Khalsa’, brotherhood of man. In Punjab, farmers start harvesting on this day with great fanfare. Villagers perform the ‘Bhangra’ folk-dance.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>The pournami day in the tamil month of Chitrai is celebrated in a grand manner for nearly a week (“chithirath thiruvizha”) in Madurai Temples. Located 21 kms northwest of Madurai is a Vishnu temple called Azhagar Temple. Here ‘Vishnu’ presides as Meenakshi’s brother ‘Kallazhagar’. During the Chitrai festival when the celestial marriage of Meenakshi to Sundareswarar is celebrated, Azhagar travels to Madurai. A gold processional icon called the Sundararajar is carried by devotees in procession from Azhagar Kovil to Madurai for wedding ritual. Hundreds of special Mandapas are erected all along the route to Madurai to welcome Kallazhagar. According to the Legend, Kallazhagar arrived late for the marriage of his sister Meenakshi.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={700}>Taking note that the marriage has already taken place, he plunges into the river Vaigai and walks through to nearby Vandiyur. Adults and children join together in spraying water at Lord Kallazhagar as he walks towards the river bank of Vaigai in total disappointment. The whole city of Madurai takes on a festive mood for this whole week. In Srivilliputhur, Chaitrotsavam festival takes place for 9 days. On the day of chitra pournami Andal in Sesha Vahanam and Rangamannar in Kudurai Vahanam stop near a stream on the way to Thiruvannamalai where the “Vayyali” function takes place.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>The pournami day of the tamil month Vaikasi is celebrated in grand manner in Murugan Temples (Palani, Thiruchendoor,…) when large number of people go to the temple carrying “Kavadi”. Valli Kalyanam is celebrated in Murugan Temples on Vaikaasi Visaakam day. Vaikasi Visakam also marks the birthday of Alwar Saint Nammalwar and this is celebrated in Kancheepuram Varadaraja Perumal Temple as “Garuda utcavam”. Lord Varadaraja is taken in a Garuda vahana to Nammalwar sannadhi for blessing of the latter.</p>
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                                <p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration={600}>Celebrated on the 18th day of the tamil month Aadi in Kaveri River basin districts of Tanjore and Trichi when the water level in the river rises significantly high. Prayers are made and offerings given to Goddess Kaveri deities made out of clays.</p>
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