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THE TEMPLE FOR SERPENTS |
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Offering
of uruli
A unique offering here is offering of uruli, a small bell metal vessel, by childless
couple. In this manner many couples are believed to have been blessed with children. The
vessel offered is kept prayerfully by the couple, before the sanctum, which is later
removed by Valiamma to her illam and kept in a room. Hundreds of such vessels have piled
up here, kept over the years.
There is a story about the origin of this offering. Once an elderly woman who had no issue
came to the temple. She had no hope of getting a child at her age. Yet she prayed for a
child. She also heard that the then Priestess of the temple also had given birth to a
child al a late age. She informed the priestess about her desire and the latter gave her
prasad. She also offered food to the woman in a small uruli. |
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