Aadi 18: flood of devotion
The HinduFaith in the higher being and social consciousness have always been the hallmark of south Indians from time immemorial. The poet says,” If the rains were to fail there would be no more offerings and festivals to the Gods.” River Cauvery is deified and treated as a goddess and worshipped, especially on the 18th day of the Tamil month of Aadi, said Dr. Sudha Seshayyan in a discourse. On this day, the river swells and flows gracefully through the delta and the feeling of piety and the happy emotions it generates in the residents of this area is unquantifiable. For eons, dwellers in the areas near the rivers Cauvery, Palar, Vaigai and Tamirabharani have prayed primarily for rains, for without rainfall, there can be no sustenance on earth. Such is the personalised characteristic of this day that men and women hold the river to be ‘pregnant’ and offer bangles, fruits, auspicious turmeric and hold a ritual one normally associates with a pregnant woman.
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