BATHUKAMMA

About:

• This festival is celebrated for nine days during Durga Navratri in Telangana.
  
  
• ‘Bathuku’means the life and Amma means the Mother. On a whole, it is a festival to worship the ‘Life Giver’, the universal energy - Goddess Shakti.
  
  
• Celebrations:
  • Bathukamma is made up of seven concentric layers of flowers that are arranged in a pyramid shape. The arrangement signifies the mother goddess.
    
    
  • As it is a festival of women, they dance around it singing Bathukamma Paatalu (i.e. songs praising Bathukamma).
    
    
  • The Goddess is worshipped for the nine days and on the tenth day of the celebration, the goddess is immersed in the local waters after performing the rituals.