A Merry-making Festival has Approached!
By Mitraa
@Mitraa (3183)
India
June 13, 2007 12:50pm CST
In my locality, this middle part of June brings a great festival of merry-making and rejoicing among the agro-based profession people every year, called 'Raja'. It is celebrated for three days with varieties of food, cakes and fruits of the season. After the festival, 'Goddess Mother-Earth' is worshiped and prayed for giving yield to good crops ahead for this season.
As this part is the starting of rains, so also the agriculture work that starts with worship of Earth as Goddess through this festival.
Have your locality any such festival related to Nature and agriculture? Please click your views.
1 response
@Mohan60 (28)
• India
14 Jun 07
Yes. In Tamilnadu we have agrobased festival namely PONGAL. The newly harvested rice is cooked with molasses and offered to SunGod as a thanks giving ceremony.One day before to Pongal they clean thier bullocks and cows and do worship.
Even in Punjab also they celebrate the new harvested rice.
@Mitraa (3183)
• India
14 Jun 07
As a thanks giving ceremony, people of our locality celebrate the festival 'Maanabasaa' in the month of Nov-Dec to have special worship of Goddess Luxmi, the Goddess of food, wealth and prosperity. By that time, crops(rice) gets ready for procurement from fields. Every house is cleaned well and decorated. Varieties of food, cakes and special items are prepared and offered to the Goddess at day time with devotion and prayers for prosperity and then taken as prasad in the family. Anyway, festivals are the integral part of our lives that nobody will disagree. Thanks for your well composed response.
