After the pujas and fasts for Mahashivaratri, Tamil Nadu sees a celebration of Shiva's consort in the graveyards. The Mayana Kollai (looting of the graveyard) festival is celebrated amidst the dead. Observed in the Angalamman temples in the villages of northern districts of Tamil Nadu, this folk festival symbolises one of the main cultural scripts of Tamil life that the feminine energy is capable of rejuvenating, recovering, and revitalising human life beyond death and destruction. The revelry involves processions to the crematorium with deities on palanquins, devotees dancing with painted faces and narrating the lives of gods through songs.
02-18-2018, 06:56 PM
Mayana Kollai: When graveyards throb with life and women power
After the pujas and fasts for Mahashivaratri, Tamil Nadu sees a celebration of Shiva's consort in the graveyards. The Mayana Kollai (looting of the graveyard) festival is celebrated amidst the dead. Observed in the Angalamman temples in the villages of northern districts of Tamil Nadu, this folk festival symbolises one of the main cultural scripts of Tamil life that the feminine energy is capable of rejuvenating, recovering, and revitalising human life beyond death and destruction. The revelry involves processions to the crematorium with deities on palanquins, devotees dancing with painted faces and narrating the lives of gods through songs.
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