This is not our father. She is a goddess called Mother in our Village. It's not magic or strategy It is God who heals wounds of people If you pay some salt to her That goddess will have mercy. When we get any wart in our body Let's take a hair and tie it and we pray All the warts fall off like flowers, In the next festival Let's pray politely by pouring some salt on the feet of our deity. If our children get measles Let's pray for Aatha to save us. If there is a sixteen-day period from neem bed Aatha will protect our children. How the mother is so helpful for the growth of a child Our Muthumari Amman is like a companion She will accompany us in our lives. If our parched farmland needs rain When we plant sprouts in the pot She will make it rain People and other living things get wet by the rain of Aatha's grace I don't know if I worship my mother in my home We, Tamils, worship our mother in every street She is the Aatha Mariamman who dwells in our hearts.\n\nJeevaneyan @ Dr.M.Kannadhasan
