It is traditionally an occasion for decorating rice-powder based kolam artworks, offering prayers in the home, temples, getting together with family and friends, and exchanging gifts to renew social bonds of solidarity. Festive celebrations include decorating cows and their horns, ritual bathing and processions.
The Pongal that has been offered to the Gods is then given to cattle, and then shared by the family. Cattle are bathed, their horns polished and painted in bright colors, and garlands of flowers placed around their necks. Mattu Pongal, is for worship of the cattle known as Madu (Cow). To mark the festival, the pongal sweet dish is prepared, first offered to the gods and goddesses (goddess Pongal), including Surya bhagwan. The festival is named after the ceremonial "Pongal", which means "to boil, overflow" and refers to the traditional dish prepared from the new harvest of rice boiled in milk with jaggery (raw sugar). Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard.Īccording to tradition, the festival marks the end of winter solstice, and the start of the sun's six-month-long journey northwards when the sun enters the Capricorn, also called as Uttarayana.
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