INTRO

Theme: Skanda Puranam/Kanda Puranam
About our Golu 2024:
This year we have portrayed Skanda Puranam, starting with the rise of Surapadman, birth of Lord Muruga, Kailasa parvatham/Mangani , the puranams/stories of 6 Arupadai Veedus, modern day temples of Lord Karthikeya. The piece de resistance are a working model of the story about the mangani/golden mango and a scene from Soorasamharam.
There are around 8-9 mountains in this year's Golu that were created by hand at home to celebrate Lord Subrahmanya, lord of Kurinji/lush mountainous regions.
Mangani story: We have elaborated this story with Ganesha going around Shiva-Parvati in Mt.Kailasa and Lord Kartikeya flying around the world.
Soorasamharam: 4 ft tall mannequins decorated as Lord Muruga and the ferocious Sooran are the highlight of our Golu
Temples of Lord Muruga - Apart from the Arupadai veedu stories, we have highlighted modern day Pazhani, Kukke Subrahmanya, Marudamalai, Pathumadai Murugan/Malaysia Murugan, Kartik Swamy temple Rudraprayag with activites like mottai/kathukuthal, kavadi, thai poosam, Ther/Chariot etc
In our 9 step 10 feet tall Golu Padi, we have Durga/Lakshmi/Saraswati and Devi swaroopams, Avatarams, Saints, Grocery stores, weddings etc. Also celebrated is the Indian Chess team playing/winning in the Chess Olympiad 2024.
Here are a few pictures of the Golu and a short highlight video. More pictures as well as a longer video with narration of the different aspects of the Golu/puranam is present in the google photos link below
Thank you.