Seethala Yadi Pooja@G A KOTTALA. Video credit: Sabavat Aravind Naik

Seethala Festival It is a traditional nature and environmental festival dedicated to Sithala Mata (Goddess of Healing). Celebrated at the beginning of the monsoon season (typically in July/Ashada month. To protect the community and their livestock from infectious diseases and epidemics. It also acts as a prayer for abundant rains, fertility of the land, and good harvests Women carry fresh water from their homes in small pots to bathe the shrine of Sithala Mata.Community members offer special dishes like khichadi or lapsi to the deity by preparing an offering pit with burning coal.