 You do it, if you don't, I'm gonna do it. If you can't have it be done, unless you do it. You wanna do it. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction to the EAT Sub-Corbin. Let's do it. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more Tuesday news, subscribe on Twitch. Look, a pen, look, a spoon, and toot it. You can follow us on our personal YouTube channels, links in the description below. Today, we are reacting to something about the festival of Rathrathra, Yathra, Rath-yathra. This is... It happened. This is... Andrani was just talking to me about this. And it happened yesterday in India. It's on the 23rd of June, that's actually today, it's just we didn't get to it yesterday, I apologize. From Odisha. Yeah, this is a spectacular chariot festival celebrated for eight days. Is held at the famous Jagannath Temple at Puri, Orisha, thousands of devotees flocked to Puri during the occasion, as they believe that a glimpse of Lord G-g-g-gannath, I'm sorry, in his chariot gives salvation. I apologize for mispronouncing that. Jagannath. Jagannath. Okay. He said correct. Yes. Thanks. So this is going to explain the tradition of Lord Jagannath to us. I'm so excited. All right. So tell me about this, that this was happening and it was, the chariot goes one way and it goes back another. So I'm excited. All right. Let's do it. Two. One. Beautiful voice. Rathiyatra, the festival of chariots of the holy trinity, Lord Jagannath, his elder brother Balabhadra and sister goddess Subhadra is celebrated every year on Shukla Pakshatvitya of Odia month of Asada at Puri, the holy town of Odessa. If I did, I think I wouldn't have been that close. The Rathiyatra or Ka festival, known for its unique rituals and rich history, is not only famous within the country, but also celebrated across the globe. According to historians and the Madhura Panji, an Odia calendar considered most authentic celebration of the festival started way back in 1230 A.D. after construction of the Jagannath temple in the pilgrim town during the regime of King Anangabheemadeva III. All the rituals, right from identification of trees for construction of the chariots, due return of the deities to the temple, are conducted as per the traditions being followed since then. The process of collection of wood for construction of the chariots begins on the Shree Panchani day. On this auspicious day, the Gajapati king of Puri sends a sutraddhara, messenger, to the forest in search of the holy trees after performing rituals like sankalpa and acharya karnam. After the identification of the trees in the forest of Daspala and nearby areas, the acharyas and servitors perform puja and start axing down the trees. The wheels of the chariots are made using wood of trees like passi, dhoura and osana, whereas trees like kansa, simili, paladhwa, neem, kambhari, kadamba and debadaru are used in the construction of the body of the chariots. As many as 274 logs of wood are used to construct the chariots. Later, four horses are attached to each chariot. The horses attached to the chariot of Lord Jagannath are white in color, while the horses attached to the chariots of Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra are black and red in color respectively. Today, Aukhayatritya has its own importance in the Srimandir. From this date, the chariot making work starts in front of Srinoura in Puri. At first, the Shrutya Brahmins and servitors conduct a yogya and give holy part to the wood meant for construction of the chariots. Later, puja pondas bring agyamala of the holy trinity to the construction site with the Bhimaan, palanquin with Madan Mohan, Ramakrishna, Shri Devi and Bhudevi placed on it. After getting the agyamala, carpenters begin the work. A good question reminds me of the amount of work that goes into panels during Durga Puja. All of the artists that have to build the panels for Durga Puja. Snana Yatra is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Jesta. The festival is also popularly known as Debusnana Purnima. The Chaturtha Murthi, Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshan are brought out of the temple in Pahundi, the ritual of carrying the deities in a unique style and taken in procession to Snana Bedi where the deities are offered a holy bath. Lord Balabhadra is offered 33 pictures of water while Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and Sudarshan are offered 35, 22 and 18 pictures of holy water respectively during the bathing festival. However, due to excessive bath, the deities suffer from fever for the next fortnight. During this period, rituals like Guptaniti, Netrasa and Navajopana Darsana of the holy trinity are performed. The three deities come out of the temple in a spectacular procession in Pahundi style and climb atop their respective chariots on the first day of Rathiyatra. At first, Sudarshan is brought out of the temple and placed on Devadolana, the chariot of Goddess Subhadra. Later, Lord Balabhadra is taken atop his chariot, Taladhoja, followed by Goddess Subhadra to hers. Finally, Lord Jagannath is taken out of the temple and placed on his chariot, Nandighosa. Look at all that manpower. It's clean with a golden brew. The royal comes from his palace on a splendidly decorated palanquin. In earlier times, he used to come riding an elephant to perform the ritual. After completion of Chherapahara, the chariots are tied to horses and pulling of the car starts on Borodanda or the grand road beginning from in front of the temple. The divine siblings then proceed to visit their aunt's place called Gundicha Mandira, leaving behind Goddess Lakshmi, wife of Lord Jagannath. However, Goddess Lakshmi gets furious over being left behind alone at Shri Mandir. She too goes to Gundicha Gharo, where the trinity is put up. On Herapanchami day, five days after her tiyatra and returns to Shri Mandir, only after damaging a part of Nandighosa in anger and disgust. To spending eight days at Adapamandapa in Gundicha temple, the deities comments their journey or Bahudoyatra on the ninth day. On the way, the chariots stop for a while at the Mosima temple, also known as Ardhasini temple, where the three deities are offered Podapitta, a typical Odya sweet dish made of rice, coconut, lentil and jaggery. The chariots of Balabhadra and Subhadra then move forward and are parked at Singadwara or lion's gate of the main temple whereas the Nandighosa again hauls in front of the king's palace. Goddess Lakshmi is then carried to the chariot of Jagannath seated in a palanquin. She is offered a garland which Lord Jagannath uses as loving souvenir for her divine partner. After receiving the garland, Goddess Lakshmi goes back to Shri Mandir and waits for him. When the deities are adorned with golden and other royal attires while seated on the chariots in the evening, the ritual is called Sunabeso, also known as Rajabeso. It is also performed four more times in a year, but when the trinity is seated inside the temple, the amount of gold used in the beso attire is said to be beyond determination. Upon Lord Jagannath's arrival at Shri Mandir, the deities are offered Odharapana, a sweet scented drink made of milk, sugar, cheese, banana, camphor, nutmeg, black pepper, etc. in huge cylindrical earthen pictures on the 11th day. After completing all the rituals of the Rathiyatra, the trinity along with Sudarshan returns to Shri Mandir on the 12th day. On this day, the servitors welcome the deities by lightning fires. First, Sudarshan and then Badabhadra followed by Devi Subhadra enter the temple. At this juncture, Goddess Lakshmi mischievously shuts the door of the temple and engages Lord Jagannath in a pleasant repartee for remaining absent from the temple for so long. Later, the Lord is made to sit beside her and a ritual of reunion is rehearsed. Finally, a pleased Lakshmi allows him to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. The Lord then ascends the Rathnasinghasana and rejoins his siblings. The ritual is known as Niladri Vijay. Nabakalai Bharat, the ritual of the deities getting new embodiment will be conducted this year after a gap of 19 years. The whole world is eagerly waiting to witness the Nabha Jobana of the holy trinity after such a long time. It is such an extensive festival. Really, really is. And I do want to know how, you know, two things. One, how do they dismantle, you know, like in Durga Puja, they dismantle them. But she is brought to the water and, you know, dropped into the water. Yeah. So I just wonder what. And did they say that it hadn't been done in 19 years at the end there? Yeah, I think that's what he said. Wow. And I doubt they're doing it this year. I mean, maybe they are. I guess. Yeah. It's that. No, I can't imagine they're doing it. They were not social distancing. And no, I can't. Can't imagine they are. I mean, there's already discussions going on. I know about the prospect of not doing Durga Puja, which hasn't happened until the end of October. So I can't imagine they're doing it right now. Yeah. And it's so sad because obviously there's what, 10 million festivals a year in India and they've already missed so much. The last one they basically had that everybody could do was holy. And that was even like the big ones, like when we were there for it, the big ones were closed down. Like they didn't even have like the big normal party festivals then. Yeah. Yeah. But the way they built all of them, they literally cut down the trees and built these massive, massive chariots. And even the selection of the trees, you know, it was just not Randy Random tree. They had to go to specific trees used for specific parts. And I'm just reminded of how difficult lockdown is in India comparatively. I mean, Manhattan would get it because Manhattan is such a metropolitan condensed people on top of people city. But not all metropolitan cities are like that. Like you're in LA, we're really spread out. And there's neighborhoods you can go into where you don't even see people walking around. But the change in so many of the cities and places in India from being a people who are so interconnected socially and ceremonially to not doing that, I'm sure for all the stupid babies, it's been a really, really hard time. Well, I don't know what you say, obviously, during this holiday. Yeah, me neither. But it's, I believe it's called, what is it called? Rath Yathra. Rath Yathra. Happy Yathrathra. Yes. If that's how you say it, if that's how we say it, you can make fun of me for saying that down below.