Kadavul Punaraavarthana Jeeranothaarana Mahakumbhabishekam Day 1

Chanting can be heard booming across the monastery today as three particularly powerfully voiced priests chant hundreds of sacred chants to begin the first day of the Kumbhabhishekam ceremony which will reintroduce the energies into Kadavul Temple's kodimaram, bali pitam and Nandi. Last September we performed a very similar ceremony to extract the energy from them into a miniature wood replica so the surrounding stone bases could be upgraded. The new bases look absolutely stunning it's hard to imagine they ever looked any other way! Today's photos just contain a teaser so you'll have to say tuned the next two days to see even more! All that stored energy will soon be reinfused into the three structures and everything will return to normal, but with even more refined power! Enjoy the photos!

Aum Namah Sivaya!

Ceremonies begin by supplicating Ganesha, of course.

Additional rites are performed to ask for Ganesha\

s protection while Satguru intones various mantras for the sankapla.'

Rice Yantra to invoke the devas surrounding the temple

The homa set up

Beautiful rice flour designs surround the homa pit

Priests chant in powerful unison

The head priest Kumar Gurukkal

Lovely Kumbhas

Flowers are tossed into the 9x9 matrix made of durva grass

One offering for each of the squares

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