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'Kottankulangara Chamayavillaku', the unique festival is celebrated for 19 long days during March -April every year.
Men clad in female attires like sarees, churidars and skirts along with make up gather at the temple, holding a lamp with five lights on a long wooden rod.
The practice is expressed as a grateful gesture for blessings bestowed through wishes gratified and also to seek the grace of the Goddess.
Trisha
a
participant
in
the
festival
said
:
"This
is
the
first
time
that
I
have
come
here...
I
was
facing
some
problems
-job
problems,
study
problems,
but
I
got
the
opportunity
now.
I
am
very
comfortable
here,
it's
very
nice.
My
friends
are
also
very
happy.
The
atmosphere
is
very
inspiring...this
is
beyond
our
imagination," said
a
jubilant
Trisha,
a
participant
in
the
local
festivities.
There are many beliefs that talk about the stories involved with the temple and the unique worship. The most popular one is that a group of cowherds dressed as girls, offered flowers and a dish called 'kottan' made of coconut to a stone playfully. It is believed that Goddess Bhagavathy materialized herself before one of the boys subsequently which marked the origin of this peculiar ritual.
The local residents believe that the stone is growing in size with the lapse of time.
The worship probably denotes the camouflaged fact of the same unifying essence in everyone irrespective of sex difference.
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