The
Brahmin Priests perform the poojas in worship of the
Arathil Devis as the presiding deity and Pazhassi Devi
as her subordinate. For the other two Devis and for
the Devas Shree Sasthappan, gulikan and Vishnumoorthy
separate abodes are built and thier idols are installed.
It was decided then that the Thira festival will be
held in the Malayalam month of Meenam on 13th ,14th
and 15th (March 27th, 28th and 29th) This has been ongoing
without any interruption ever since very smoothly. The
same team who conducts the thira festival of Arathil
Sree Bhadrapuram Temple also is conducting this Thira
festival of these 4 Bhagavathis and Sree Bhootham.
Since the day Arathil Bhagavathy took
over as the protector and guardian of the family in
her multifaceted guises as vivid as Mahalakshmi, Saraswathi
and Sree Parvathi, she had been blessing the locality
and the Arathil family and the prosperity, popularity
and wealth of both have spiralled sky high day by day.
At this period, the male members of
the family had indulged in encroachment of the lands
that belonged to the Kottayam royal family and started
cultivating these lands which came into their custody.
Enraged by this aggressive action by the Arathil Candoth
men,the King sent his men to summon the elder of the
family.With a tone of arrogance and hostility that they
were capable of at that goldern era of the family, the
elders sent back King's men saying that they need not
have to run at th beck and call of the king as the family
deity, the Arathil Bhagavathi, is one and only Supreme
head for them and that they do not acknowledge the supremacy
of the King.
On hearing this provocative answer
to his summons, flaming with anger, the King was closeted
with ministers discussing the ways to imprison the Arathil
elders, when information came that certain untoward
incidents befell the family. Upon hearing this, the
King sent his messengers to bring the palace Astrologers
to find out the reason for this inauspicious developments. |