Pongal is a harvest festival - the Tamil equivalent of Thanksgiving. It
is held to honor the Sun, for a bountiful harvest. Families gather to
rejoice and share their joy and their harvests with others. The Sun is
offered a "Pongal" of rice and milk.Pongal is the only festival of Hindu that
follows a solar calendar and is celebrated on the fourteenth of January every
year. Pongal has astronomical significance: it marks the beginning of
Uttarayana, the Sun's movement northward for a six month period. In Hinduism,
Uttarayana is considered auspicious, as opposed to Dakshinaayana, or the
southern movement of the sun. All important events are scheduled during this
period.
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