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| TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS |
India is the land of festivals. The land adopted various religions,
customs, and languages as Mother. Here every religion has right to celebrate
their festival in their own way. People forget about all the obstacles and
participate in every festival. In India festivals happens throughout the year. Ganpati
Puja, Durga puja, Holi, Eid, Jaanmastami,
Chhat, Dewali, X-mas these are the major festivals of India. Everyone can take part
to enjoy the celebration. Apart from all, some traditional festivals are also
celebrated in India. This traditional Festival limits within a few communities.
They are still carrying the tradition by Generations. Some of these Festivals
are very dangerous and deadly. Here we will discuss about 10 unknown
traditional Festivals of India.
1. THIMITHI:
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| FIRE WALKING |
This is a Fire-Walking festival in Tamil Nadu. There is a story in Hindu
Mythology, that Draupadi walked on burning
coal to prove her innocence after the war between Kaurava and Pandava. Some
Tamil communities worship Draupadi as their village God. Thimithi ceremony happens
every year before Diwali. People start making the fire pit from the previous
night of the ceremony day. As per ritual devotees begins walk in early morning
and it ends before 11 am. Many devotees suffer burn injuries on their feet. But
they believe on their worship. Fire-walking ceremony is not only practiced in
India, But also in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries.
2. JALLIKATTU:
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| JALLIKATTU CELEBRATION |
This is a famous traditional
sport in Tamil Nadu. Jallikattu is also known as Manju Virattu. This
traditional sport is celebrated on January during Pongal Festival. There is a
meaning of the Tamil Word, “Jalli” means “gold or silver coins” and “Kattu”
means “Tied” The sport is between big bull (with big horns) and crowd of
people. Many people participate in this game to ride the bull hump and take off
the flag from the horns to win. This is a very deadly game, many of the
participants died during the game.
3. BANI FESTIVAL:
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| BANI FESTIVAL |
This is a stick fighting festival in Andhra Pradesh. Bani Festival is
celebrated in Devaragattu Temple at
Karloon in Andhra and Karnataka Boarder. Every year during Dassera, many people
take part on this Festival of Sri Mala Malleswara Swamy in Devaragattu. The
Festival begins after sunset and runs all night. People celebrate it by fighting
each other with stick and hit their head to one another. They believe that if
they don’t performed then Lord Malleshwar will be angry on them.
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PULIKALI:
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| PULIKALI MAKEOVER |
Pulikali is a Festival of Kerala during Onam. This is a
folk art display festival. Every participants of Pulikali displays this art on
their body. The traditional art is still in practice in Thissur and Palaghat
district in Kerala. Actual meaning of Pulikali is “Play of the Tiger”. In this
Festival people paint their body with Folk art of hunting, tigers, big eyes and
big teeth. People represent their culture by makeover and traditional dance.
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BABY TOSSING:
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| BABY TOSSING |
Baby tossing is a ritual custom in Karnataka and Maharashtra.
This is a process to drop the infant from 30ft of the ground. This is very
dangerous and deadly process, and banded by the government of India. But in
many places it still happens as a tradition of their culture.
6. THAIPUISM:
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| THAIPUISM |
This is a major traditional festival in Tamil community.
Thaipuism is celebrated at Palani city in Tamil Nadu. This festival is
celebrated all over South India and some other countries as well. Devotees prepare
for this festival from 48 days by fasting and pray. In that day some of the devotes carry a pot of milk as a burden
(kavadi), some carry burdens on the flesh by penetrating the tongue, cheeks or
all over body with skewers. This festival is worship of Lord Murugan and
celebrated on January.
7. MADAI FESTIVAL:
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| MADAI CELEBRATION DANCE |
Madai Festival is a
traditional celebration of tribal (Baster People) groups in Chhattisgarh. This festival
happens in a big ground. Thousands of people celebrate it with dancing on
traditional song and beating drams. They consume drink and eat traditional
foods to celebrate this festival on their own way. A goat is sacrificed in honor of the tribal Gods beneath
a sacred tree. The goat is taken around the whole village with beating of drums
and bells. Marriage is also a unique part of this tradition, which continues all
night long.
8. CHARAK:
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| CHARAK FESTIVAL |
This is a folk festival celebrated
in West Bengal. It happened on the last month of Bengali calendar. It continues
for a month, people follow difficult rules to satisfy Lord Shiva. Female
devotees celebrate it with pray and fasting. Male devotees swing from the pole by
hooks penetrating through their back skin. The hooks attached to the pole by
ropes.
9. AOLEANG MONYU FESTIVAL:
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| KONYAK TRIBE |
This is the biggest and most
significant festival in Nagaland. Konyak tribe celebrates this festival during
the 1st week of April. They are well known for “Head Hunting” in Nagaland. Celebrating this Festival
is for welcoming the spring and New Year. During the Aoleang Festival many
rituals take place including dancing, feasting and prays for a good harvest.
Hoi Lah
Nyih, Yin
Mok Pho Nyih and Mok Shek Nyih are the three days of the
Aoleang festival. These days are spent for weaving traditional cloths,
collecting the animals which will be sacrificed. Rice beer is a traditional beverage
made by the tribes.
10. KILA RAIPUR:
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| CART-RACE COMPETITION |
Kila Raipur is a rural sports festival. It is also
known as rural Olympic. This Olympic is organized annually by the Grewal Sport Committee
in Panjab. Village athletes participate in this event. Cart-race is one of the
most popular sports of this festival. This game is very dangerous. The bull-cart
is carried by two big horn bulls. Players run their cart as fast as possible
towards the end point to win the game. Many other sports competitions are held here,
like Rope pulling, wrestling, running, weight lifting and jumping. Audience enjoys
this sports festival very much. They gather to cheer up the athletes.
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