Theyyam in Red Or is it the Oracle from Kodungaloor - in Fort Kochi , Kerala

            Cochin hosts a carnival every year in the last week of December and it runs with the New year.
While the hangovers dry out on the 1st of January from the excesses of the night before and the bonhomie of the New year’s wishes are at its pleasant highs, the Carnival starts off around 4 o clock in the evening in the Fort Kochi area.
The carnival has its roots in the 1500-1600 era when the Portugese colonialists were the rulers of the pepper and spice trade running out of India. Cochin was their head quarters and as is to be believed, the New Year parties of the Portugese were all night affairs and an event to show case their wealth and style. 
The Dutch took over Cochin in mid 1600 and they and many others who came after them were mere enactments of history. But what the Portugese began as a New year party has come to stay and has now turned into a gala carnival quaint and sweet in its Indian setting.
The carnival is not on the grand scale of the Rio spectacle but smaller and has a heady mix of the New Year festivities with the old and the conventional themes and culture of India.

Here is a shot of a Theyyam performer on the streets. Being God must be an uplifting experience. Not too sure about it as the curved blade is something that is used at the Bharani ritual at Kodungaloor


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Taken on: January 1, 2008

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Sets appears in: • Theyyam ! • Kerala

Groups appears in: • Body painted or Costumed Men

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