Aanayoott.com
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Anayoottu - world's largest elephant feeding ceremony
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Excerpted from the website:
- Thrissur, the town of the famous Thrissur-Pooram extravaganza in April-May every year, is getting ready for an enchanting rally and feeding of elephants at the Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple, around which the city has been built, in July 2004.
- The temple, one of the oldest in South India according to the archaeologists and founded by Lord Parasurama according to legends, enshrines Lord Siva as the principal diety. The idol of Siva, now not visible is said to be covered under a mount of ghee, formed by the daily abhisheka with ghee over the years. A devotee looking at the sanctum now sees an eleven-feet high mount of ghee embellished with thirteen cascading crescents of gold and three serpent hoods at top; naturally, he reminded of the snow-clad Mount Kailas, the abode of Parvathy and Parameswara, as per traditional belief.
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