Like previous years, traditionalists on one side and rationalists and humanists on the other mentioned their particular reasoning over some taboos connected to the lunar eclipse that fell on Full Moon day on Saturday. By The Way, Kumar Purnima was likewise commemorated throughout Odisha today. The lunar eclipse would begin at 1.05 am and end at 2.22 am. According to standard belief, cooking, firing up fire in the cooking areas and food usage have actually been restricted 9 hours before the eclipse and throughout the celestial phenomenon. It is generally thought that cooking and consuming throughout the eclipse time would take a toll on human health or develop disorders. Traditionalists normally preach versus the intake and cooking of food throughout eclipses. Some rationalists in Ganjam and Boudh districts cocked a snook at such beliefs and taboos connected to the lunar eclipse, calling those as misconceptions and unscientific. Some arranged a mass delight in Saturday in Berhmpur to spread out awareness on such olden beliefs and practices. To show the traditionalists incorrect, humanists and rationalists together tossed a celebration in Boudh on Saturday and taken in non-veg food. Therefore, they declared that the strictures on cooking and consuming throughout or prior to the eclipse are absolutely nothing however simple superstitious notion.
Lunar Eclipse: Rationalists cock a snook at misconceptions, hold mass banquets in Odisha
