Planet Moon is 4.06 km from the earth and is 81 times lesser than the weight of Earth.  It rises 52 minutes later the next day from the rising time of the previous day.  It takes 29 and half a day to go around itself and the earth.

People pray for removal of obstacles in marriage talks, for child boon and progress in education.

Villagers commence the rice feeding of their infant children in the temples of their family deities.  The affluent do this in the Guruvayurappan temple.  In Tamilnadu Thingalur Kailasanathar temple is noted for this ritual.

This function is celebrated by people on Ashwini, Mrigasheersha, Uthiram, Swati, Tiruvonam, Sadayam and Revathi star days during the Chandra Hora time ( Horas are specific times each day showing good and bad times – Chandra Hora is one of the best time in the day).  Before feeding the child with rice (Annaprasana) the child is shown the moon and a cow, thus bringing the blessings of Jaladevadha (water God) and Oushadhi Devadha (God of medicines).  It is believed that Jaladevadha would protect the child from cold, fever etc. and even if it so happens it would be cured by the Oushadhi Devatha.

It should be understood that showing the moon to the child while feeding is not simply to make the child cheerful and eat but there is a spiritual aspect too.

Thingalur is a place that is closely associated with the life and times of a Shiva devotee of rarest of the rare nature named Appudhi Adigal.  Adigal is a suffix used in the names of renowned religious leaders and ascetics.  Appudhi Adigal belongs to this category of leaders as a role model teaching the greatness of Guru. 

He did not perform penance.  He did not worship even Lord Shiva.  He had in his mind only the great Shiva devotee Sage Tirunavukkarasar.  For him everything was Tirunavukkarasar alone.  He named his eldest son Senior Tinavukkarasu, younger son Junior Tirunavukkarasau and every charity institution he established was named after the sage.  In his decisive opinion, serving a devotee means serving God, a truth approved by God Himself.

Appudhi Adigal and members of his family have special respect in the temple with their statues installed.  Once when Adigals’s son was bitten by a snake, Tirunavukkarasar brought the boy back to life with his “Ondru Kolam” Thevaram.  Celebrated poet Sekkizhar tells the story of Appudhi Adigal in 46 verses in Peria Puranam.