The effulgence of Goddess Annapoorneswari that was brought from Cherukunnu to Tharoor was again taken to Kunduvampadam in Palakkad district. This is now consecrated at the Cherukunnathukavu. Legend says that around a thousand years ago, two women belonging to the Alangodu Areekkara Nair family and the Vadakara Nair family went to Kunduvampadam Cherukunnathu kavu with the ingredients for making the Naivedyam. The offerings given by all the devotees would be prepared for Naivedyam in the same vessel and the poojari would perform the Pooja. When the two ladies reached there, the rituals had started and they could not make their more offerings to the Goddess. This made the two of them distressed and they prayed to the Goddess complaining that if the Goddess were with them they would not have to walk such a long distance to worship her. Before going back, they rested at the point where the path turns into two directions at a point very close to the present temple. They kept what they had brought with them there. When they got up to go after the rest they found that the rice they had brought in the Uruli (vessel used in temples) was boiling. When they tried to take the Uruli, it went down and became the self-originated idol. The effulgence of the Goddess entered the two women. The power that entered the lady of the Areekkara family resided at Kooraalikavu and that which entered the lady of the Vadakara family resides in the attic of the Vadakara family even to this day. The elder male members of the two families took the initiative to build this temple. The Goddess at Cherukunnathukavu and the one at Panayoorkavu are believed to be sisters.