Taking away the gloom of COVID-19 years, Keralites celebrated Vishu with traditional enthusiasm.
The spring harvest festival seems to have rendered the years of gloomy pandemic a distant memory. Family togetherness marked the holiday that signaled the arrival of the spring harvest season.
The high point of the festival is watching “Vishu Kani” at dawn. It is a visual symbol of abundance, a bell stuffed with golden colored “Kani Konna” (Indian Laburnum), fruits, paddy stalks, vegetables, gold ornaments, silver artifacts, silk, a mirror and a metal frame. Appears as a small pan. image of hindu god krishna, A lit oil lamp adds glow to the cornucopia of abundance.
Making friends with friends and neighbours, bursting crackers and feasting on sweets were characteristic of the early hours of Vishu.
It was an opportunity for families and friends, who had been isolated by the COVID-19 years, to mingle. The elders adopted the customary practice of donating money to young children.
crowd of hundreds Sabarimala and Guruvayur Temple. At Sabarimala, the chief priest distributed coins to a limited number of devotees who arrived early. Vishu Darshan begins at 2.30 in Guruvayur
good friday celebrated
Vishu festival is associated with the gloomy Good Friday observation. Hundreds of observant Christians re-enacted the “Path of Sorrow” to celebrate the punitive path of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The bishops and priests led the common people in open sacraments. Hundreds of wooden crosses bearing hundreds climbed the Malayatur hill to commemorate the martyrdom of Christ.