Thiruvathira
<p><em>Thiruvathira</em> is a festival unique to Kerala, along with <em>Onam </em>and <em>Vishu.</em> It is celebrated on the full moon day of the fifth month of the Malayalam calendar, around December or January. It is a festival centered mainly on women. Its origins date back into antiquity, “back to times almost out of mind.” Although these days it purportedly celebrates a happily married life in the model of the holy matrimony between the Hindu god <em>Shiva</em> and his consort goddess <em>Parvati</em>, the popular conception of it even as recently as a hundred and fifty years ago was as commemoration of the death of <em>Kamadeva</em>, the Hindu Puranic god of love, who was destroyed in the fire of <em>Shiva’s</em> third eye.</p>
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