VELUKKAN AAYAPPOM PIDAKKOZHI KOOVIAPPOL 1
(ABOUT SUN RISE WHEN HEN CLUCKED) Dear friends, For a long period due to Covid19, I was mostly keeping inside and NO morning walk. About onemonth back I have started again my morning walk in early morning. I walk in theearly morning wearing mask, applying sanitizer in hands along the nearbystreets where people walking are lesser for about ten minutes. Today I was walking in a nearby streetwhere the cocks were crowing and hens and chickens were clucking. I thought today my posting can beabout Hen and cock (Pitaand poovan KOZHI in Malayalam.) Hen is the female. Hens and cocks are domesticated birds, and hen’s egg is anexcellent food item. They have lesser life period. They are also used for meatwidely. On earlier days there were night shelter for them called coop orhenhouse. Now in many homes they spent night in portico or back side in manyhouses in medium city houses. Some houses have coop. It is called Kozhikkoodu in Malayalam. Nowadayssome bigger houses have large coop. When a person constructs a smallhouse others used to say- appearlike hen house. Some people use to domesticatehens similar to parrots as a bird. I have not seen an iyer home domesticatinghen, but it was a common scene in our iyer homes, they come from nearby houses,walking, eating their food items from the premises and keep the premises neatof worms etc. I havenot seen our iyer mammies drive away the hen. Sometimes the eggs laid were soldto shops and it brought money to iyer homes. It was an unwrittenrule that if an egg is laid on other’s premises, the owner has no right on thategg. Now most of the hens are inPoultry farms, and some places like NAMAKKAL is famous for the poultry farms. Tons of eggs are sent from thereevery day to other places. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 13-3-2021 1. Sage Gauthama incident. Moon God take the form of cock. It is a very interesting story. During Paalazhi manthansage Gowthama was an on looker. During churning many things came up. One ofthem was smart kanyaka AHALYA. Indra desired to have her. But hehesitated to ask her for a moment. That moment was critical. Brahma gave her to sage Gowthama-the own looker sage to bring up her. The saying- Kandum kondu ninnavanpenniyeum kondu poyi. (The onlooker went with girl!!) Just likeOlympics but for his hesitation she would have been of Indra. When she was grown up sageGowthama took her to Brahma as ordered by him. Now also Indira hesitated to askfor a moment to Brahma. But Brahma pleasingly gave her back to sage Gauthamaand asked to marry and lead a family life. Again Indra missed lottery winningnumber by one digit change. Indra could least tolerate thedevelopments. He desired to have Ahalaya.He thought of the people who can help and finally decided the Moon God can bethe best and trustworthy. There was already an issue on the black side for itabout Moon God – he had abducted Thara wife of sage Jupiter during a big aswamedhayaga performed by him. Indra called the Moon god. MoonGod accompanied Indra. Indra took the form of sage Gauthama and Moon god as ofa Cock. They reached the hermitage in amidnight. As cock moon god produced crowed repeatedly. The sage got up thinkingit is early morning and started for ablutions and bath. Indra got in to hermitage in theform of sage Gauthama. Ahalya felt sage Gauthama had gone for nature’s calledand came in. She did not resist the advancing of Indra and his intimacy in theform of sage Gowthama. After going out for some distance,sage Gowthama felt something rotten and foul smelling and returned tohermitage. He found Indra in his appearance in intimacy with Ahalya. Sage cursed Ahalya to becomestone and Indra to have private organ in his entire body. However it appears that Moon god escaped somehowfrom curse. The story of Ahalaya is told inRamayana . I have told with some humour here. 2. Kurukkantae Kannu kozhkkotil thannae (Jackal always look in the henhouse) It is a saying in Malayalam veryoften used about youngsters. If a jackal wanders around a house with hen house,it wanders only with an aim- To catch hold of young hens and chicks and run awaywhen hen house is opened and chocks run here and there. Thinking jackal is not there andhens are let out, from hiding bushes the jackal would make its appearance and catchat least one young hen/chick. The saying is used to indicateyoung men/girls moving here and there in marriage houses, festivalareas etc. Some of the youngsters may be aiming to meet their like ones at oneplace or other or chit chat creating an occasion purposely. It is a very commonscene in marriage and common functions. 3. Arathuvitta kozhi (The hen just killed) Both parts of the hen will bemoving while losing life. Some people will always be restless in the nature andDISTURBING OTHERS. They cannot remain a minute calm. Such behaviour is told like hen just killed.In day today life we can see many such people both among men and women. Onlything this nature mostly affect more elders than youngsters. Not at all kidswho are naughty. 4. Cherthala Bhagavathi Karthyayani It is one of the offerings in theCherthala temple to fly chicken/hen. For this first all other hens are moved tosome other by feeding them in the premises. Then only we can fly a new one. The other way they would attack the newone. For this purpose most select ahen from the temple premises, pays the offering charge and fly before Devi sothat attack would not be there on it. This offering is done to get things doneor got things done on prayer to the Devi. Devi is very much pleased with henand chicken. 5. Kozhi behaviour. The cocks make a lot of intimacy a day with hens. Onaccount of this, a person morally showing less discipline are often told ashaving nature of cock. 6. Early morning On those days the Brhamamuhurthamwas thought of when the cock crowed. It is a mystery they crow in the earlymorning at a specified time. On those days when clocks and watches were notthere cock crowing time was taken as early morning time. 7. Ambadan and Alleppy trip Once Mangombu swamy had a work in Alleppy.He thought his assistant ambadan can be taken along with. Swamy told him-“Kozhi koovumbam ezhnelkanam, nalae aalappuzhae pokanam”. (You should wake upwhen cock crow and (we have to) to go to Alleppy. Next day morning swamy got up andfinished his morning ablutions and got ready. He did not find Ambadan- As tohimself he told mami- Ambadanae kanalliyae. Mami replied- Avan kozhikoovarappale ezhunthirithu, enkittae cholliitu aalapuzhaikku poyuttane”(Ambadan left early morning to Alleppy as told by you when cock crowed after intimating me). Fromthis the saying Like Ambadan went to Alleppy (A work without serving any purpose) 8. Kokkarakko, KO, KO If you produce the sound of hensimilar to the above as the cock produce even we can make a crying child smile.The kids would forget the cry and get absorbed to new imitating sound and startsmile. I will continue more on cock/hen/chicken in next posting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/673533930.470985.1615649617004%40mail.yahoo.com.
