Sachintha Priyasanka
Panama Ankeliya Also know as Ankeliya is sinhala and kombu vilayyadu in Tamil. Ankeliya is a folk sport dedicated to the goddess pattini. When pattini and her husband, paalaga tried to break a white flower with the help of two cakes, their two cakes got stuck. They began to pull the two keys to outher side. Pattini was its winner. She was overjoyed. It was an insult to paalaga. Based on that event the Ankeliya game was born. In Ankeliya there is pull between two groups of men. The group representing pattini is called Yatipila and the group representing paalaga is colled Udupila. The entire village follows a vegetation policy during this 15 day Ankeli festival in August and the villagers malre sure that there is no pollution. Whomen who have given birth to new children and young women who hove reached puberty should be separated from the villa...