East Gaterr: Golu's significance and various golu pictures of my friends and relatives

Dear readers,

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted as I got caught up with house shifting and went to Thirunelveli for the Tamirabharani Mahapushkaram.

In this post I’ve written about the significance of Golu being kept during Navratri festival and have attached few Golu photos from my friend’s and relative’s house Golu for Navratri this year. It’s a late post but I prefer to post it rather than storing it in the phone itself because nobody can’t keep such cute collections of Golu idle. Also you can’t miss those beautiful Golu arrangements which are simple yet creative.

Golu from Kiran anna and Vinitha Manni's home

From my friend Preethi Sethuraman's home

Significance of Golu

From Jayaram uncle and Bhuvana aunty's home

Navratri is a 9 days long festival celebrated in almost every part of the country. One of the integral part of Navratri celebrations is the Golu everybody keep in their houses. Golu is the display of dolls and figures, it’s also done in thematic manner or also done simply. It basically displays various mythological events in the Hindu traditions like Ramayana, Mahabharatham, Bhagavad Geetha and various demon destructions (vadham). It also consists of Dashavatara, Various deities, Lord Sri Ram Dharbar, Krishna Leela, Lord Kartikeya’s birth, Lord Shiva family aka Kailaya Dharshan and Maha Periyava’s doll. It also includes various general scenes like Chariot Yathras, royal procession, wedding scenes, and daily scenes in home, miniature kitchen utensils and various creative toys.

From my friend Sri Vatsa

The Chennai Silks, Thanjavur

In the first bottom step it also have a Kalasam in which freshwater and a coconut on the top of the vessel with mango leaves for Ambal (Goddess) Ahvanam is done, to which one elder member or female of the family will perform Poojas on the morning or evening or both times.

From Govindarajan my sanskrit guru's home

The Golu is just a medium for socializing as well as to perform rituals. If you keep Golu, You have to invite guests to your house and give the prasadams. By the means of Golu, which is an opportunity for people to socialize. Especially this is a golden festive season providing such opportunity to socialize where people think socializing is just chatting through WhatsApp and Facebook and hesitate or feeling lazy to come up and speak to people face to face.