Monday, November 8, 2010






Description:
ceremony or ritual conducted in remembers of the people who have dead.
in pic, there is one idol of Bootha, sticks symbolizing gods mahadeshwara and siddapaji (regional gods), each symbol of gods are brought by four different people, called as Dasaya, Jogayya, Madappa and siddapaji. this four people are worshipers of those regional gods mentioned above. The ritual is also done in other forms given different names, in the same regional area. different caste people call it in different names.

The belief is that if present generation serves or worship or respects through conducting poojas, there generation would be safe from practices of black magics n problem from there ancestors.
there is lots of symbolic representation of gods, four people identified as regioanl gods, there visit would be blessings to the family