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 Kuthiyottam

Is associated with the ritualistic dance at the Kumbha Bharani festival at Chettikulangara Bhagavathy Temple, near Mavelikara in Alappuzha district.
Kuthiyottam,' has its custom and tradition rooted in human sacrifice (‘Narabali'), . It involves adoption of a boy child by the devotee who gives him as ‘vazhipadu' (offering) to the deity at Chettikulangara on Bharani in the Malayalam month of Kumbhom

 

    


   

 

   


 

 

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