By Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
ISBN-10: 0253009529
ISBN-13: 9780253009524
During the goddess Gangamma’s competition within the city of Tirupati, lower-caste males take guises of the goddess, and the streets are choked with males donning saris, braids, and feminine jewellery. in contrast, girls take part by way of intensifying the rituals they practice for Gangamma all year long, comparable to cooking and supplying nutrients. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger argues that in the pageant final fact is imagined as lady and ladies determine with the goddess, whose strength they proportion. vibrant money owed by way of female and male individuals provide new insights into Gangamma’s traditions and the character of Hindu village goddesses.
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The men taking Sunnapukundalu vesham grow their hair a little 41 IMAGINATIVE WORLDS OF GANGAMMA longer than normal for this purpose. The pot itself is encircled with strands of flower garlands. When the two veshams are completed, the women who have patiently observed their creation throng forward to receive the blessings of the Sunnapukundalus. Women seem to find Gangamma’s blessings at this moment of vesham completion particularly powerful. The goddess has revealed her true ugra self in the Matangi, and has now made herself more accessible again, assuring her worshippers that her ugram is not ultimately threatening.
These heads are literally ugra—that is, excessive, over-sized—but they are also the goddess in her fullest form, forms of her vishvarupam, whose darshan many jatara participants assert cannot be sustained by her worshippers for more than a few moments. The goddess has expanded over the week of the jatara to an excessive size with excessive demands. One woman said, “By the last day, we can’t bear her anymore. We would have to give her piles of food [kumbham] every day; we wouldn’t be able to bear that.
Speaking with the women of the family, I learned of a range of female domestic and temple rituals that performed a world quite 18 Introduction different from the public rituals that I had experienced to date—and the seeds for this project were sown. In May of 1995, at the end of a year-long ethnographic project during which I had worked with a Muslim female healer in Hyderabad (Flueckiger 2006), I asked a female schoolteacher and folklorist friend (N. Lakshmi, from Rajahmundry) if she would be willing to accompany me to Tirupati’s jatara.
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