Of sky, birds and pacha mochai

Coimbatore | Monday | 20th November, 2017

Summary:

The artists, Anand Sami, Ravindra Vijay and Kalieaswari Srinivasan, entered the stage singing ‘Po po pom po po pom poom ... Mother sky went up looking for them and all the cotton balls on earth went up with the sky, to form clouds. Birds were called tharava, as they moved on the ground.”The sun and the moon were born out of the love between the sky and the earth. It was a love story of the sky and the earth. This is how the sky is up now.”The storytellers continued to regale the audience about how birds got their wings, how the Gods once wanted to eat parotta and sent garuda down to earth to get it, and how the pacha mochai got a white mark on it..