In a bizzare attempt to appease the rain gods, farmers of Nadupatti, a remote village in Edapadi taluk, performed a ‘men-only’ tantrik ritual. The procedure that began on Monday evening, ended the next morning.
Nadupatti is one of the several hamlets that dot the western region of Salem district, which has been hit by drought. Even last week’s showers in some parts of the district skipped Nadupatti and a few nearby villages.
Disappointed, farmers of the village planned to perform a ritual to appease their ancestors. They gathered at the village lake, sacrificed animals and fowl and applied their blood on the sluice gate of the lake. Poojas were also performed as part of the tantrik ritual.
The ritual mandated that male members alone take part in it, claimed Asok Kumar, a union councillor, and Ganesan, secretary of the local milk society. It was they who led the special ritual.
The duo claimed that it was an ancestral practice and ritual of last resort if all else failed to fetch water to till their fields.
The ritual involved offering prayers and seeking forgiveness for mistakes, if any, committed by villagers that could have angered the rain gods, they explained.
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