Atha Mariamma

This is not our father.
She is a goddess called Mother in our Village.
 It's not magic or strategy
 It is God who heals wounds of people
 If you pay some salt to her
 That goddess will have mercy.
 When we get any wart in our body
 Let's take a hair from the hair and tie it and we pray
 All the pimples fall off like flowers,
 In the next festival
 Let's pay politely by pouring some salt on the feet of our deity.

 If our children get measles
 Let's pray for Atta to save us.
 If there is a sixteen-day period from neem bed
 Atha will protect our children
 How the mother is so helpful
for the growth  of a child
 Our Muthumari Amman is like a companion
 She will accompany us in our lives.

If our parched farmland needs rain
When we plant sprouts in the pot
 She will make it rain
 People and other living things get wet
 by the rain of Aatha's grace
 

 I don't know if I worship my mother in my home
 We Tamils worship our mother in every street
 She is the Atha Mariamman who dwells in our hearts.