Rituals
Pattini is honoured in annual fertility rites such as
- Gammaduwa (village rebirth) festivals, during which her myth is enacted.
- Ankeliya (horn games) in which, as in the British game of Uppies and Downies, upper and lower teams compete.
- Porakeliya (fight games) during which two teams hurl coconuts at each other.
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