This is my first photo challenge for the Flower of the Day Challenge and it’s in response to the Flower of the Day Challenge by Cee Neuner Here’s the link to her blog https://ceenphotography.com/flower-of-the-day-fotd-challenge/
I chose a picture from a fun cultural and religious function for the ladies that is called Bathukamma. Bathukamma is a floral festival that is celebrated predominantly by the women of Telangana and some parts of Andhra Pradesh in Southern India. Every year this festival is celebrated as per Shathavahana calendar for nine days starting on Bhadrapada Pournami and lasting until Durgashtami, usually in September or October of the Gregorian calendar.
Bathukamma represents cultural spirit of Telangana. Bathukamma is a beautiful flower stack, arranged with different unique seasonal flowers most of them with medicinal values, in seven concentric layers. In Telugu, ‘Bathukamma’ means ‘Mother Goddess come Alive’ and Goddess Maha Gauri-‘Life Giver’ is worshipped in the form of Bathukamma – the patron goddess of womanhood, Gauri Devi.
It is the festival for feminine felicitation. On this special occasion women dress up in the traditional sari combining it with jewels and other accessories. Teenage Girls wear Langa-Oni/Half-Sarees/Lehenga Choli combining it with jewels in order to bring out the traditional grace of the attire. After they dress up, all the girls and ladies get together and dance around the flower arrangement stack that they have made. There is a contest on who made the most beautiful and unique flower stack arrangement.
2019tv said:
Lovely flowers. Thanks for sharing!
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2019tv said:
I am not seeing my first comment anywhere so I thought I’d better try again. The BOTD and WWE are my challenges. Cee is the host of the FOTD. I know it’s confusing. I keep messing things up and luckily people have always been kind enough to straighten me out. I’m not sure about this, but your pingback may get your flowers, which are gorgeous, to Cee’s sight, but for sure if you go to https://ceenphotography.com/2019/08/09/fotd-august-10-2019-sunflower-and-friend/ and post in her comments, it will get to the correct place. She has a listing of all kinds of photo challenges on this page : https://ceenphotography.com/for-the-love-of-challenges/photo-challenges/
I hope this helps. Thank you very much for stopping by my sight. I hope you continue to come by and visit it. Have a terrific day!
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sirirani27 said:
I was able to post it on the link right around the time that I saw that you left me a comment.
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2019tv said:
Thanks! I just didn’t want to take credit for all the hard work that Cee does. Have a great day!
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cosistories said:
Such a beautiful arrangement of flowers. I especially love those small blue ones. Just so pretty! 😀
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ghostmmnc said:
Beautiful flower arrangements, and interesting and lovely information about the celebration. 🙂
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sirirani27 said:
Thanks for reading my blog, liking my posts, and commenting on my posts.
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-Eugenia said:
Beautiful flower arrangement full of lovely vibrant colors! Thank you for following BrewNSpew.
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Victoria C. Slotto said:
Thanks for sharing this beautiful tradition.
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