 What are we doing, Rick? I don't know, but let's do it. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And Instagram. You can follow us. And Twitter. More. Content. It's so juicy. Yeah. And follow us on our personal YouTube channels. Like, subscribe, ring the bell. I don't know if the case is gone. Bye! Hey, what's up on Patreon as well? I don't know if I said that. Did I say that? I don't think you did. But for those of you who skipped the intro, you missed something. That was a time warp kind of a thing. And those of you who stayed there, it felt weird, didn't it? I missed it. Missed what? I don't know. Me too. Anyways, today is, um, Onum? Yes. The Onum Festival. Yes. Is that what it's called? Well, that's O-N-A-M. And I think that's how you pronounce it. Onum? Onum. Which I believe is a Kerala-type festival. Right. If I'm remembering all your beautiful messages. The happiest festival of Kerala? Yes. The pharmacy and jewelry state festival of Kerala. Yes. I believe we reacted to something last year from this festival. I could be wrong. Because we've gone a full year so now we've reacted to a lot of the- Did it have any- was that when we did the thing with the food that was served on the banana leaf? I don't know. Maybe. Oh, but I hear you. Uh, Onum, the official state festival of Kerala since 1960 is a 10-day harvest festival which started on August 22nd and ends on September 2nd. It's celebrated with joy and enthusiasm all over the state by Mali Ali's regardless of religion, caste, or creed. The festival commemorates the return of mythical king Mahabali to see his beloved subjects at the beginning of Chingum, the first month of the Malayalam calendar. Malayalam. Malayalam. I can't believe you're gonna set up again. Malayalam. It's a Malayalam calendar. What is wrong with you, Rick? It's a mammogram. What is wrong with you? I'm a creator of Corvinizations. Oh, let me see if that's- Okay. Okay. All right. Here we go. It's a festival that is celebrated by all in Kerala, but as a concept, it has resonated differently at different times and regions and formed different styles. That evil elm in waterings, what's her name? Like by K-blanker? Once upon a time, the people were celebrated in southern Kerala in the Malayalam month of Kerala. Can't wait to come to Kerala in two years, whenever we're allowed out of the United States. Best believe we're going there. As the name indicates, children's celebrations were given prominence and it was only after they were served the traditional feast and fed to satisfaction that adults sat down to eat. The people of Trikakara, Onam means the full month of festivities. According to a Hindu myth, King Mahabali had his capital at Trikakara. The 28-day-long festival conducted at Trikakara temple has a thousand-year-old tradition. Is that the great King's birthday is celebrated as Onam. We saw something. I don't know if that's the same one. The Chamayam is ritual that imparts a regal aura to Onam celebrations. Onam. Devotees believe that it marks the form and setting forth of the King from Tripunathara to participate in the Onam celebrations at Trikakara. Public announcements are made about the event on Atta-Chalayam day and the celebrations end with a common feast for all as well as a distribution of Atta-Panam. Onam is seen as an agricultural festival too. As part of it, the choicest portion of agricultural produce is offered to the guards in a ritual called Kaichikula Samarpanam on the eve of Onam on Uttara. Puranmura Thiruvonathoni is another ritual. These names. It's a boat in which the carnival of Cartoon Mangadamana sends all the ingredients for the Onam feast to the Parthasarapthi temple at Arunmula. According to popular belief, Lord Krishna himself appeared in the form of a little boy in front of a patriarch of the golden days and demanded to be fed. The Cartoon were obeyed and this ritual has been taken forward by the succeeding generations. When Cartoon Hattathiri, accompanied by attendants of other boats, reaches Arunmula with his decorated Thiruvonathoni laden with provisions, the natives of the area give him a loud and cheerful welcome. The boat race is also conducted annually. Did we do the boat festival last year? On this day? I think that's it. Is that the same day? Yeah, because I know the Kerala boat festival. It is preceded by a procession of beautifully decorated snake boats. Vornadilla is a special artifact that is placed as an offering at the sanctum of the Padmanabhaswamy temple at Thiruvonandapuram on the day of Orna. It takes months to prepare the boat. Devotees preserve it in their homes believing that it will bring luck to the family. Is a boat of offering conducted at Mitranandapuram Vamanamurthy temple in Trishur? A temple in another part of Kerala, Sridharma Shasta temple at Shasta and Kottan Kullam feeds monkeys on consecutive days of Uttaranam and Thiruvonam. Oh, now they get to feast. Exactly. Must be, I think that was probably one of the smaller ones who was afraid one of the big kids was coming. Now, the arrival of King Mahabali is ritualistically announced at dawn by a Theyam called Oneshwaram. He is utterly silent and for that reason he is also called Onaputtan. Thar is a Theyam who appears on Uttaranam and Thiruvonam days in Kannur. So beautiful. Uchira Thalavetta is a festival associated with the Paradrama temple at Uchira. It is conducted on the 28th day after Onam. Oh, wow! A decorated pair of effigies of bulls is arrayed by each of the 52 localities at Onatukara, a region once famous for its agricultural wealth and known as the agrarian capital of Kerala. Dang! Look at all those. Today, it is a remnant of a ritual that celebrated the profusion of nature, a reminder of a time long past when the land yielded gold and a symbol of meaning that prosperity was in the spirit of harmonious coexistence binds humans, the land, and the power of fortune. Oh, those are all handcrafted, I bet. Yep. My goodness. Every single time we see any video with Kerala, we see a Mali-Alam film that's set in... It's one of the most gorgeous places. And I can't wait because obviously the next time... Guys, people are like, come to India again. Guys, we're not allowed into any country right now. I think we're allowed into like 20 countries. Yeah. And India is not one of them. Right now. Because America is awesome. But every single time I see it, it's so fricking gorgeous. Well, and we said, because people were wondering, you know, the stupid babies were wondering on our last trip when we would be back and where we would go. And we've basically, you know, we've said, okay, we started in this region, came down here, and then we're going to start from Mumbai and work our way down south. So, and I was, you know, we would love to come back next year, but we just, you can't make any plans... Right now. Right now for anything. Because there's, we just got to wait. Because to do it, it's so amazing that we were able to get the last trip in and do what we did because we literally were able to get hugs and kisses and literally feeding you within a week before the planet shut down. No one felt it. It was a week later and then everything went. Well, amazing. We had to shut down two days after we got back. Yeah. Two days after we got back. And while we were in India, they were saying, now they're not going to start letting anybody come in. They were starting to shut down the coming in. Yeah. So even our arrival, if we had scheduled it just two weeks later, we wouldn't have even been able to get there. Yes. That is the region of India. When we do it, it would be wonderful if we could do it in 2021. We'll see. I don't know. But this looks awesome. One, I don't know if they're all part of the same. I'm guessing they're also the good boat. And then you got those. Yeah. It's the end. And you got the over the course of those days. Because they said it last 11 days or something. 10 days. 10 days? Yeah. Dang. That's crazy. How much does it take? Because like we've seen, I forget what festival it is, crafty, giant. I think they were almost like pyramid type things. Every single festival they have it seems has something built that's either statue-esque or a panel of some kind like Durgapuja. Yeah. They do a big statue thing for Durgapuja. Yeah. Durgapuja, they do panels all over the place. It's just everywhere you go. And the panels, I've not been in them because I haven't been there for Durgapuja yet, but the videos that I've seen, you walk into these things. They're like three times the size of your house that are made just for that year. Every single time we see these festivals we're always like, because obviously we just don't have that here in America. No. You have a couple, you have Halloween, which is, it's not really a festival. It's just something that we do. Yeah. It's a big popular thing, but you don't, nobody builds anything on the house. Obviously Thanksgiving, but that's more family. Family have some food. Have some food and Christmas. Remember that. Christmas is the biggest thing where there's decorations all over the city. But you still, like, people don't go to a place and like, it's like a season that you'll go to the nutcracker. Or you'll go to like Candy Cane Lane. There are neighborhoods that you'll go to and drive through because all of the homes are covered in lights. That's epic and beautiful, but it doesn't even come remotely close to the scale of what they do in India. Yep. Yep. We have no culture here in America. We stole it all. Our country's age, we're younger than the city of Calcutta. The city of Calcutta is older than this. I think most things are older than this. Yeah, including you. It's true. You're older than America. I'm older than America. I believe it. I actually was in Italy when I heard about Chris coming over here and I kept telling everybody, he's a freaking moron. He didn't reach India. Would you stop calling him Indians? Also, he never reached America. No. He reached Cuba. Yep. And he raided. Yeah, he started to rape and pillage and say, Hey, don't get me started on Chris.