Chandana kaappu for Angalamman that made her look like a little bommai (doll). The gurukkal later sent us photos, which you can see. At Mutthumariamman, too, chandana kaappu.
At the Iswaran Koyil, too, chandana kaappu, but done in green (no photos here) so it did not look like chandanam but like a garment. I asked Arasoo Swami who had done the alankaram, and he replied “when you ask like that, we will always say that we did it.” One of many lessons for me in the deflection of self and ego that happens in the temples. There is no “I” as such (thaan-gara ahambhavam, my Amma used to say), there is perhaps a collective “we” and the certainly of a HIM or a HER.
A little like the Ghousiga temple has its Thulasi Mariamman, the Lawspet Murugan Koyil has a Balamutthumariamman koyil about a block away, and considers both shrines “one.” Balamutthumariamman should have had a vizha starting today, but we only heard of it and weren’t around to see for ourselves.