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The Mayana Pooja or Graveyard Festival is celebrated at Melmalayanur Angalaparameswari Temple in the southern Indian state of Tamilnadu. The Festival is celebrated across the state one day after Mahasivarathri day. During the day bizarre rituals are performed in the temples. During the last leg of the ritual, devotees go on a procession to the graveyard, cook food there, offer it to the deities and collect ashes from the cremation ground, which they would smear on themselves. other rituals include biting chicken live, swallowing blood, chewing bones, etc as seen in this graphic footage.

Mayana Kollai symbolizes that annual raid on the dead. In olden days, it had some of the faithful chewings on the bones and flesh of a corpse or two, but in modern times the procession is chiefly symbolic. Its fervor and energy, however, remain undiminished.

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