For everything on earth, there is a season and time. People always choose the best time to do the most important things of their life – whether it’s marriages, festivals or agriculture. For seeding and harvesting also, ancient people looked for the right time according to their traditions as well as nature’s nature. Old people are not well educated or scientists. Yet they were keen in observing nature and its climatic changes. So when to start farming or harvesting, they sense the nature’s smiles and angers and act according to it. That’s why Thiruvathira Jnaatuvela is auspicious and significant for Malayalis. Though all peasants of Kerala never see ‘Thiruvathira Jnaatuvela’ as before, it wan era when seeds were planted and harvested only on the principles of Jnaatuvela.

Jnaatuvela are of different seasons of which Thiruvathira Jnaatuvela is most famous. To start farming of a new crop and add manure to them, Thiruvathira Jnaatuvela is the best season according to Kerala climate. It’s to be noted that monsoon arrives for the first time in India through Kerala and slowly it moves towards north. Though farming and its techniques may differ from place to place, Thiruvathira Jnaatuvela is very significant for rice, coconut and pepper – the major three crops of Kerala. This is the best time to replant rice sapling. This season also suits best to give manure to coconut trees as well as to replant young ones. It’s the best season to plant new pepper plants too. That’s the reason why years back Samorin told to Mangattachan, “Portuguese may take pepper along with them. But they can never steal Thiruvathira Jnaatuvela from us!” That shows the significance of this particular colour of monsoon season. Aged people still have a lot of stories and folklore to tell about ‘Jnattuvela’ and their traditional methods of agriculture. In Dhanu month on Thiruvathira star day, related to full moon, the day is widely celebrated in Kerala.  

Now a small word on Thiruvathira star. Beetlejuice star of sky is known as Thiruvathira according to Malayalam astrology. It is a gigantic star of red colour and stays near Gemini. It belongs to Orion star group and is 647 light year away from earth. It means, even if it explodes now, it takes 647 years for we, people on earth to know that Thiruvathira is no more!

Article Posted By : Sandhya Rani  On July 03, 2013lView All Articles

Please don't neglect elder people's knowledge related to this earth and nature, because they have seen nature so near

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