Ritual Practice

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Aadi Perukku - Monsoon Festivals of South India - Adiperukku, Water Ritual Through Religious Practice
... The Adiperukku, as a water-ritual, celebrated by women is to honour nature ... The association of this ritual with fertility, sex and reproduction is both natural and human ... This water ritual practice is performed on the banks of Rivers, which is described as a rice-cultivation tract ...

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