Taking charge at Kallayi…
It has been said that in the distant past, a new Zamorin
taking charge of his kingdom would make a ceremonial procession from one of his
residential kovilakoms (usually at Ponnani) to Calicut, stooping at Kallayi. At
Kallayi, he would receive a betel nut wrapped in a betel leaf from a Moplah
woman or a Moplah boy dressed as a woman, as part of an elaborate
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