LOL. I do not need your certificate to be a Keralite, a malayali or a "Sanghi". But the fact that your find it hard to digest that I am a mallu and a keralite only show your Intolerance for the truth.
This is what comes from arrogant ignorance of a christian who thinks he can explain Hindu festivals to a Hindu.
Bhadrapada month of the hindu calander is the month of Vishnu. The entire month is auspicious and Krishna Janmastami , Ganesh Chaturti, Parsva Ekadashi, Vamana Jayanti, and Anant Chaturdashi falls on this month.
Each of them is celebrated by Hindus in their own way. Not all of them is a social celebration.
Practices on Vamana Jayanti (Onam) range from donating rice and curd, to chanting the Naryana mantra 108 times, to doing special pooja to vishnu, and donating food to Brahmins.
SO its most certainly not a kerala thing. Only the social celebration is a kerala thing.
In the past, the festival used to be celebrated with the Tripunithura Athachamayam. Athachamayam was a triumphant march of the Maharaja of Kochi from Tripunithura to the Vamana Temple at Thrikkakara.
It was an occasion to show off regal pomp as well as to herald Onam, the festival of peace and equity, remembering the days when everything was in abundance. And since this was a royal procession, Representatives from all communities accompanied Kochi kings during Athachamayam. They included a priest from Karingachira Church, Nettur Thangal (Head of Nettur Mosque) and Chembil Arayan to represent the fisher folk.
Vendors used to sell conical mounds made of clay representing Mahabali and Vishnu, called ' Trikkakara Appan'.
The Maharaja of Kochi along with the Kozhikode Zamorin used to conduct the festival and special poojas at Trikkakkara Vamanamorthy Temple on Atham day.
This was the day when the Maharaja gave "darshan" to the locals.
This custom died with the death of the monarchy in kerala.
Onam was then revived in the late 60's and Athachamayam was renamed Athaghosham. It was only in the 1980's that Tripunithura Municipal Council conducted this new Athachamayam with the participation of thousands of Artists from the state and made it into a public festival. That is how it became a 10 day festival in the Ernakulam district.
Today it is "secularized" which is just another name for Hinduphobia and Vishnu pooja has been scrubbed out of the Hindu psyche by the Communist, christian and muslim combine. I am not denying it, I am FIGHTING It.
You are free to mock hindus in kerala for celebrating Bali rather than Vishnu on Vamana Jayanti, but that is what you get for becoming a Dhimmi.
That is how Parasitic religious work. By stealing from other cultures and religions.
Hinduism works on different principles, our festivals and celebrations have evolved , not stolen.
If people are "open" to different culture, Let them be "open" to the culture of not slaughtering cows too
Its clear that your claims of being "open" is only for stealing, and not for adopting or adapting.
What is the need to call you a commie when you have admitted to being a commie. Only I am certain that your christian values (or lack of them) are strong than your faith in communism.
LOL at your attempt to brush off alcoholism and the related child abuse in Kerala. Your contempt for hindus will continue to blind you to the reality. But that is just who you are.
That is like asking why not leave the Nazi's well enough since they have been elected by the germans
Corona is a black neck too mad bawa
His is probably blacker than mine, being a christian convert.