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Hindu ritual of Pouring milk in Mound (anthills)

  Hindu ritual of Pouring milk in Mound (anthills) Pouring milk and placing eggs for the Nagamah (Snake Goddess) at anthills and praying for blessings for reducing sarpa dosha, marriage, children , etc. It involves humans, white ants, snakes, and anthills. Snakes don’t build the anthill and don’t drink milk but consume eggs . The eggs are for snakes and milk for other creatures. The white ants build the hill. Humans in the name sangiyum (rituals) are playing many roles behind such rituals, such as protecting underground water sources, to keep away the snake and white ants from villages. It is a multi-functioned ritual from spiritual to reality .  Significance of snake (Cobra) . The Snake primarily represents rebirth, death, and mortality, due to the casting of its skin and being symbolically "reborn". It also signifies the Kundalini (serpent power) in the individual body of each human. Sushma, ida, and pingala nadis were considered the serpents. If one looks at the image