Durgashtami, which is popularly called as Durga Pooja is one of the most significant festivals of India. This refers to all six days observed as Mahalaya, Shasthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Navami and Vijayadashami. More than just a festival Durga Pooja is a carnival of life, culture, popular customs and traditions. It is a time relocates, reunion and rejuvenation to love, to share and to care.
On this day involves the worship of Shakti i.e Goddess Durga (which is a incarnation of Godess Parvati) The story of this festival lays back to the story of Mahisasur, a powerful daemon also called as the Buffalo Daemon. Through several years of intense praying and worship he got blessings from Lord Brahma that no power could making him invincible. But once the great powers were blessed upon him, he started ravaging the entire world and assassinating people and eventually wanted to uproot the deities too. The Gods, finally decided to combine their powers to create a pleasant maiden, and each placed his or her most powerful weapon in one of her ten hands riding a lion. Godess Durga killed Buffalo Daemon and won the paradise back for the Gods. Her return in every year occurs in the Bengali month of Aswin (September-October) commemorates Rama's invocation of the goddess Shakti before he went into fight with Ravana and defeated ravana in the battle.
Godess Shakti is also referred as Amma (means mother) in south india. So many temples are situated in south india devoted to various incarnations of Shakti maa in most villages of this part. Their belief is the Shakti maa is curer of all diseases and protector of the village, punisher of evil people and one who gives welfare to the village.
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