Friday, February 1, 2008

Worship of the womanhood



Attukal Pongala is not simply a worship of the Mother diety (Attukalamma), but a worship of the womanhood itself. One can never find a festival, particularly associated with woman any where in Indian culture. Pongala symbolises the compassion, sincerity, dedication and bhakti and above all the forgiveness of women (or a Mother). By offering Pongala women re-dedicate themselves to the cause of womanhood, asserting that their role play as mother, sister and daughter procreating the essence of human being is more divine than mere physiological.

3 comments:

krystyna said...

Thank you for this info-blog about Pongala. Really good idea!

Truly, I don't understand correctly many Indian's celebrations,... but I try.
Pongala - worship of the womanhood. Generally, I don't like worship any person on the earth, only God. Maybe I don't understand word "worship". In my native language (Polish) - worship refers to the God. (religion meaning).
I wonder too, how Indian man respects a woman as a woman/mother/sister...etc.

Keep up your wonderful work!
I learned more today reading your post.

Good luck!

KS Manu said...

Thankyou Krystyna, for the comment.
do come to Trivandrum for Attukal Pongala next time..and will discover more.

Manu KS

ॐ Hanah ॐ said...

Pretty and inspiracional project...