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Monday, August 31, 2009

Athachamayam Festival, Thripunithura - August 2009

Onam celebrations of 2009 season was formally commenced by the  Athachamayam festivities at Tripunithura near Cochin, Kerala in a conventional manner. Habitually, different folk art forms of Kerala, decorated elephants, traditional Panchavadyam drummers added grandness to the Athachamayam cavalcade.

Theyyams at the Athachamayam 2009:

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Theyyams  that take part in Athachamayam are for demonstrative / display objective only. Unalike the original Theyymas that carry out rituals in Hindu temples of north Malabar which explicitly uses costumes and makeup composed of organic constituents, these Theyyams use costumes and makeup made of synthetic and artificial components like ensembles of a dance / drama artist. For instance, in factual Theyyams, the headgear borders are decorated with red shoe flower petals, whereas in demonstrative Theyyams, it is with red ersatz threads.

Personae from different Kerala Folk dances that staged in the course of Athachamayam

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Arjuna Nritham

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Padayani

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Kavadiyattom

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Maritheyyam

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Ammankudam

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Mayilattom

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Boys in Pulikali (Tiger Play) maquillage

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School Children donning ancient and traditional clothe

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Cocooned in blissful isolation between the verdurous Ghat mountains in the east and the azure Arabian sea in the west, the tropical coast of Kerala, nurtured by the benevolent monsoon showers, is the dreamland of tourism in South India.The history of the region stretches back to ancient times when the scent of its spices attracted to its silver shores traders from all over the world: Phoenicians, Romans, the Chinese, Arabs and Jews.The same scent of seduction brought in later centuries the Dutch, the Portuguese, the French and the British. All these races were received with warm oriental hospitality by the people of Kerala.The fabulous Chinese nets at Fort Cochin, trapped in the nostalgia of this ancient trade tradition, and the Dutch Palace and the Jewish Synagogue at Mattanchery are a few of the evidences of Kerala’s assimilation and integration of alien cultures.

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