Pongal Celebrations

In Karnataka: The day of the festival began with a pooja to the household deity and offerings included sweet and hot pongal, and sesame seed mixture (peanuts, roasted chenna, dried coconut bits and jaggery (brown sugar). In the evening, mothers and daughters visited the friends and neighbors to distribute the sesame mixture, sugar cane, dried coconut halves and Sakkare Acchu (fancy sugar figuirines cast from special wooden molds). This custom of families exchanging the sesame seed mixture was called Yellu beeradu. We see this tradition being carried out at the Temple during Sankranthi celebration by several Kannadiga ladies. In the country side farmers washed, decorated their cattle and fed them sugarcane.

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