AANA (ELEPHANT)PART 3 Continued from part2
13. ELEPHANT’SDEPLOYED IN FESTIVAL The two poorams, at Trichur and Aarrttupuzha, isactually a pooram of elephants. Beautiful male elephants after medical tests areonly permitted to the pooram festival. Trichur pooram is not the festival of Trichurtemple. It is conducted at Trichur temple. 14. AAANA- CLOTHING. Near to my home, there was a she elephant in theBhagavathi temple (Kulanada). It was called Vanajakshi. The Late mahout Pappocchar used to say- The chain over the body is the clothingof the elephant. An elephant without putting the chain should not beused during festivals. It was used to pull cut trees, sized woods, arrangingetc. in forest areas. It was very obedient and the mahout Pappochar never usedto chain it. One day morningPappoochar found elephant is missing at the work place near forest. Where ever it could gowas done in the forest. News came the elephant has missed and probably wentdeep in the forest. 14A VANAJAKSHIRE-APPEARING Mahout Pappoochar remained in the working areas nearthe forest, assisting others in controlling elephants. One year and a fewmonths passed. Even pappoochar forgot about his elephant. One day morning pappoochar could not believe his eyes.His vanajakshi was standingin the same place from where it was missing with its chain. With asign of relief he brought back the elephant. My elders said-Vanajakshikku saathya sandhatha undu. Athinu pokathirikkan vayyathayi.Athukondu poyi ( Vanajakshi is truthful. Probably in uncontrollable estrus itwould have gone for mating.) My note- I haveread elsewhere a domesticated elephant will not be accepted again byforest elephants. However it is a true incident. 15. AANAVALMOTHIRAM All the jeweler shopsare having rings called Aaanaval mothiriam. They use a bit of hair from its tail rolled as ringand encased in gold. It is told the fear would become lesser to the person wearing it. 16. AANA CHAMAYAM Before Trichur pooram, the elephant gears- aaanapattam , Thidambu, bells for fore legs, and umbrellas would be displayed. This is called AANA CHAMAYAM. 17. KUZHIYANA Kuzhiyana is called ant-lions in English. They live insmall pits on the ground. When any ant passes by, they flick the earth on to itso that the ant falls into the pit. They live on ants. 18. SOMEINTERESTING INFORMATION When a baby elephant isborn ;its ears will not have folds. As it grows its ears fold. From the folds onecan know the age. Asian female elephants do not have tusks. Tusks arenothing but their teeth. African elephants even the females have tusks. African elephants have large ears sinceAfrica is warmer than the places where Asian elephants live. Asian elephants have only one finger like projectionat the tip of their trunk whereas African elephants have two. My addition- the elephants so flap the ears to reduce heat on body. This is warmness normally. (From the responses by SriVenkat Raman) There is another heat on the body due to estrus . This is desire for mating. I read somewhere read domesticated elephants should be set free in some forest areas free forsome time. (They may mate in forest) During Ramayana period the elephants had for four tusks(Response by Sri RajaramKrishnamurthy) 19. BIRTH OFLORD GANESHA. nce Lord Siva and Goddess Parvathi took the form ofelephants and leading a happy life as elephants in the forests. At that timeParvathi delivered a child- It was Lord Ganesha. (I have read this legend in the net) -- 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/301606935.1146467.1644402176719%40mail.yahoo.com.
