Kuthiyottam registration for Attukal pongala festival 2013 begins

The banner announcing the opening of registration at the Attukal temple premises

Registration for Kuthiyottam in association with the Attukal temple festival 2013, began on 17 August 2012, the registration will close on 15 February 2013. Devotees can make online registration at the temple website www.attukal.org or directly at the temple office.

Procession of the Goddess - photos

Photos of ezhunnallippu of Attukal Devi to Sastha temple, Manacaud

Attukal temple festival - Kuthiyottam photos

Kuthiyottam after arriving in front of Sastha temple, Manacaud

  

Kuthiyottam going back to Attukal temple



Ezhunnallippu video

Watch the Ezhunnallippu video of Attukal Devi - Attukal temple festival 2012.
The procession leaving Sastha temple, Manacaud.

Attukal Pongala 2012 video

This year 3.5 million women took part in the Attukal Pongala festival, seeking Attukal Devi's blessings, making it the greatest celebration of womanhood in the whole planet. Watch the Attukal Pongala 2012 video

The finishing line

Every year after the Attukal pongala, the Trivandrum Corporation's cleaning workers' engage in a cleaning process, which only takes three hours to wipe out the bricks, paper, plastic and other waste materials from the city roads, they really deserves a shake hand.

Back home

About 30 lakh women participated in this year's Attukal pongala taking the blessings of the goddess to thirty lakh homes, promising each other that they would come back in the years ahead.

Pongala is over, now its buying time

The noon break

Queue for the noon meal

Got it!

And a short nap

Attukal pongala video

Watch Attukal pongala 2012 video

Beating the heat

For the blessing of the goddess

Pongala snaps

Its Pongala

Waiting for the fire

The pongala rush video

The market place

The curios

Pongala snaps