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They will attend to many ceremonies & functions at Hethai Mane - Beraganni /Pedduva/Gasu Gui. The unique ,Badaga ATHIKKODU - вЂќ Ye Ha Ho вЂќ will be loudly uttered.ДЄs you listen to this вЂ Ye Ha Ho вЂ you can feel goose pimples rising, eyes welling up with tears and the heart filled with thoughts of the ALL POWERFUL HETHAI with both happiness and awe.

As they (including many young boys) proceed away from the village, women spread white sheets (mundus) on the path and all those (men, women & children) not proceeding will prostrate ( adda bubbadu ) and they will be blessed ( harachodu ) by those вЂhethai kararuвЂ™.

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The villagers give a warm and respectful send off to those proceeding to Hethai Mane (- they would have followed a very strict code of conduct like not eating non vegetarian food or consuming alcohol). вЂThe milk vessel is nearby, but the churning place is far offвЂ™ Also called OGASU by Lingayat and Haruva Badagas. But Dodda Mane in a hatti must have a Hogotu and if it is absent, the front portion of the kitchen is still considered sacred and for men only. Prof.Paul Hockings mentions that HAGOTU is the milk churning place, adjoining kitchen, inside the house - a place of worship, into which the women are not allowed to enter. In olden days, every household had a Hethai Dhadi of its own. Ladies also, usually, do not eat inside the OGAMANAE where the HAGOTTU is presentвЂ™. Ladies during their periods are not allowed into the room that holds the HAGOTTU. This container/sort of vessel is a broad hollow bamboo mearuing about 2 feet in length with the lower end closed. Here, mention must be made about HONE used for milking of buffaloes (nowadays vessels or buckets are used). Any outside materials that are taken into the HAGOTTU are вЂ™purifiedвЂ™ by applying camphor vapour (KAPPARANA AATHODHU)). The DHADHI is taken out once a year and cleaned with salt & tamarind and then taken to the HETHAI MANE during the festival and kept back in its place as soon as the festival is over. The HETTHAI DHADHI is kept in the HAGOTTU inside a bamboo that has been bored along its length so that the DHADHI can fit in. Since Hagottu is treated as sacred, it is smeared with cowdung every Mondays with water gathered from springs (HUTTU NEERU) only. The diary products were stored in THATTAE (mud pots) inside the HAGOTTU. This was used for churning milk and only the men had the rights to enter this place. It has the churing stick or the MATTHU which is attached to a pole firmly buried to the ground. In the olden days the diary products where stored here. Ramachandran of Kekkatti gives an interesting tit bit : вЂThe Hethai Dhadi, considered very sacred, is always kept in the sacred corner called HAGOTTU, which is situated in the OGA MANE adjoining EDA MANE.

This money (coins) - KANNIKE - tied in a white cloth will be handed over to the Hethai temple at Beragani. Every house in the hatti has to pay five HANA (25paise coin) in a ceremonial function called HANA KATTODU in the village Hethai Gudi ( also known as SUTHUKAL - a stone under a Bikke mora tree that is worshipped - see the photos below). It is not fixed on a particular day like say X-Mas which is always on the 25th December of every year & hence the Hethai Habba day with referrence to English Calender changes every year.Д®very year, from various hattis the male members in their traditional dress proceed to Hethai Gudi (mane) in Beragani on thr preceeding FRIDAY by foot. This year the Hethai Habba was celebrated on.

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Hethai Habba is always on the first MONDAY (SOVARA), the most sacred day of Badagas, after the full moon (paurnami - HUNNAWAY ) that falls in (Tamil) Margazhi month, that is the 9th day after eight days of вЂKoluвЂ™.

Badaga traditional dress