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== Aanayoottu Festival ==Bold text

The Aanayoottoo Festival is celebrated in the precincts of the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrisur Kerala.The Festival is held on the first day of the month of Karkkidakam according to the Malayalam calendar. This coincides with the month of July. The Aanayoottoo Festival is celebrated in the precincts of the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrisur Kerala. It is a splendid treat to the eyes as nearly 50 unadorned elephants are positioned amid a multitude of people for being worshipped and being fed with a delicious feast. A large number of people throng the temple to feed the elephants. Every year of `Aanayoottu' 'gaja pooja', is conducted. It is believed that offering poojas and delicious feed to the elephants is a way to satisfy Lord Ganesha the god pf wealth and wish fulfillment. Vadakkunnathan temple, which is considered to be one of the oldest Shiva temples in south India, has been playing host to the Aanayottoo event for the past few years. The special feed, of the elephants include sugar-cane leaves, coconut, jaggery and the sweet mix of Ganapthi pooja prasadam. The feeding session begins with the chief priest of the temple, offering the first feed usually to a cub elephant.

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Elephants are an integral part of kerala culture.The keralaite canot think a festivals with out the prsace of elephnats. The relation betbeen the Majastic animal and the man is prtey old and facinating. There are many tail of theire bounding with the human. In older days having own elehanat was considered as a ststus symboal in Kerala, These elepahnts are used help the man for shiffing heavy meterials one place to another place or loading the hevy thing to a truck or trailers.The elephants was employed with the help of main mahout and his asitant mahout These animals used to be send to long distance places of high ranges for work and return to home only on the festivel season, March/April and the monsoon season jully/augst (Karkkidakam according to the Malayalam calendar). The keralates are always crazy about the animl and equaly care full about the welfare of the animal once the animal retuned to the home during Karkkidakam (according to the Malayalam calendar) they are given full rest and rejuvenation therapy given them to enhance the well being of these beasts. The rejuvenation therapy cosnsit of spacial kind of rice prepration with aded medicainal plants and sweet feed them foe almost the 21 days contiusly, In fact the elephants are hailed as sacred animals, which justify the almost mandatory presence of elephants in the South Indian temples. in fact many of the famous south indian temples have number of animals feeding the elphants are considers as auspisous. It is believed that offering poojas and delicious feed to the elephants is a way to satisfy Lord Ganesha the god pf wealth and wish fulfillment. Lookin in to these devotes feeling the temple autorites started these rejuvenation therapy as a public event named as ‘The Aanayoottoo Festival’

== Significance ==Bold text

In fact the elephants are hailed as sacred animals, which justify the almost mandatory presence of elephants in the South Indian temples. in fact many of the famous south indian temples have number of animals feeding the elphants are considers as auspisous. It is believed that offering poojas and delicious feed to the elephants is a way to satisfy Lord Ganesha the god pf wealth and wish fulfillment. Lookin in to these devotes feeling the temple autorites started these rejuvenation therapy as a public event named as ‘The Aanayoottoo Festival’ . The Aanayoottoo Festival is celebrated in the precincts of the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrisur Kerala. The Festival is held on the first day of the month of Karkkidakam according to the Malayalam calendar. This coincides with the month of July. It is a splendid treat to the eyes as nearly 50 unadorned elephants are positioned amid a multitude of people for being worshipped and being fed with a delicious feast. A large number of people throng the temple to feed the elephants. Every year of `Aanayoottu,' `gaja pooja,' is conducted. It is believed that offering poojas and delicious feed to the elephants is a way to satisfy Lord Ganesha the god pf wealth and wish fulfillment. Vadakkunnathan temple, which is considered to be one of the oldest Shiva temples in south India, has been playing host to the Aanayottoo event for the past few years. The special feed, of the elephants include sugar-cane leaves, coconut, jaggery and the sweet mix of Ganapthi pooja prasadam. The feeding session begins with the chief priest of the temple, offering the first feed usually to a cub elephant.