- Place: Thiruvananthapuram (Attukal), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (8.4833°N, 76.95°E) Attukāl Pongala (February–March, 9-day festival) is the world's largest religious gathering of women — Guinness-certified at 5 million in 2009. Women cook pongala (sweetened rice) in terracotta pots on brick-stoves arrayed for 15 km through Thiruvananthapuram streets. The goddess Attukāl Bhagavatī is identified with Kaṇṇagi (heroine of the Tamil epic Silappatikāram). Men are forbidden to enter during
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
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