The festival is a ritual closely associated with the worship of Goddess Angalamman.
The 'Mayana Kollai' or looting of graveyard festival, is celebrated amidst the dead. The event involves processions to the crematorium with deities riding chariots, and devotees dancing with painted faces and narrating the lives of gods in the form of songs, narrating the mythology of Angalamman.
This traditional festival is observed as part of the Masi Amavasai festival, in which devotees donning costumes of Angaalamman, kill lambs and poultry birds with their bite and come in a procession around the temple premises and streets in Pondicherry town.
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| Angala Amman sand sculpture at Pondicherry Light House Ground |
Photographs Copyrights by Pondicherry Arun
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