Dr. V.P. Mohana Kumari explains the Ucharal festival, held mid-January to honor Mother Earth's menstrual cycle in tribal belief. The clay Mother Goddess sculpture has eight hands with symbolic weapons, and the celebration includes Panchopacharya element-based worship and medicinal rock vapours.
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Sculpture is they form like fire. Fire is also formed. So you need an object to see and to enjoy. That is the reason we are making this sculpture of Mother Goddess. Sculpture is actually a doll a child. How a child learn about form? You give a doll or you give a doll Everything with a form that is the same meaning for temple sculptures or church sculptures. You need to concentrate on something matter. So here Mother Goddess in clay sculpture. The reason for this big sculpture is also she has eight hands and weapons in eight hands. It is not weapons for destroying people. It is the weapon of her character qualities which she is giving to imitate or to follow her. So that's important. Especially this Kali Yuga. The black age women are changing from her motherlihood like tolerance, love, kindness, compassion all slowly disappearing. So here mother is with her eight hands with eight weapons showing the symbol of importance women has to follow for her braveness and for her great life for the future generation. And the celebration starting on 14 at 6:45 that day the sun, moon and the star is focusing on her to bring luck, prosperity and peace. Mother Earth is going to get her divine periods that time. So this is a resting time for Mother Earth. The tribes say. Tribes are the native Indians. They used to believe that it is the menstruation period of Mother Earth. Why they are telling that? Because it looks like that scientifically. The earth is changing to deep red those time especially certain countries like India, Africa and Italy. You can see that changes in Kerala the Chenganur is specially example and the Sirichandur place those places it's very a deep beautiful red. That's why the name came. Chenganur means red soil earth. Tirischandur also respectful red soil earth. In Italy, Rome long time the Ucharl festival celebrated for Ucarl festival they say Februition and those time they don't do any agriculture or digging the land. They do only hunting to lower the population of animals. Decreasing the amount or the numbers of animals will give earth mother rest heavy less feeling those way they thought. So it is not a new festival. It is very ancient festival respecting mother Earth and the rocks. This time start giving vapor the rock vapor Shilajit Kalmadam all these names are known for this sweating or excretion from divine mother Earth. Those are very big medicine for your organs, skin, total body health. You can use them in many way changing to many forms. This earth red earth is with lot of clay and that clay burning and changing to medicines possible. Or you can take the fresh clay for body problems. So she has all the time to bless us and to give what we want. So we have to make her sculpture, pray and dedicate on her. Do all the good things. This time from 14 to 24 January, we can help the world by protecting the Mother Earth. That's very important. Today the sculpture is almost ready. So we started bringing all the elements for her element worships. She is very fond of Panchopacharya puja, that is the element worship. So in the puja place, what you are seeing is connected with the element worship. Mother is the basic element. So we all need food because we are on this earth. So food offering is standing for Mother Earth. She is giving food, sharing food. Everything coming from this earth. Then the water element, that is a vessel with holy water. You can say that is for offering, for drinking, for cleaning. Everything you need water. That is the second element. The third one is fire element. With fire you can offer also with camphor or with ghee and trim you can offer. And the fourth element is air. That is with vrok camphor, all those things. By offering you can worship that element. And the Akash or the ether worship is with flowers. Flowers are coming from this earth for the Akash, for the ether. So flower worship, flower bearing everything taking you to Aetherine form of God or the level highest level.
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