Today's story doesn't appear in any Purana. It's a folklore story from southern Tamilnadu.
Long ago after this universe, plants and animals were created, humans were created by Lord Brahma. Brahma didn’t know what daily work to assign to humans. So Brahma approached Lord Shiva and asked a solution.
Lord Shiva sent the message with solution thru Nandi. The message was to create humans with agenda to take oil bath and worship him everyday. And to eat thrice every month.
However, Nandi in a hurry to give the message and return back to the proximity of lord Shiva, didn't hear the message properly. He delivered a flipped message to Brahma.
Accordingly Brahma created human with a property to eat thrice everyday and have oil bath and pray once a week.
After returning to Kailash ,Seeing Nandi’s mistake,Lord Shiva gets angry and gives a curse to Nandi that till this world ends, his species, would help humans in agriculture and gathering food for humans in their daily uses.
This happened on mattu pongal day. From that day ox and bull are used by farmers extensively in agriculture.
So we Tamil people, celebrate mattu pongal by decorating and doing Gho pooja. On this day every Shiva temple has its main Nandi decorated with fruits, vegetables and sweets.
This story warns us to be very careful and concentrate on the work we do to the fullest.
Om namah Shivaya !!
Nice one. Stresses the importance of listening
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