![]() Lord Murugan ( Cheyon - The Red One, Murugan - The Handsome - Later made equivalent with the Vedic Subhramanyah ). Seiyon/Cheyon (the red one): Know as Murugan, the lord of warfare and hills. (instead of wasteland, it is also taken as a mixture of Kurinji and Mullai under the heat of burning sun) Tholkappiyam, mentions that each of these landscapes had an associated deity such as Seyyon (Murugan or Karthik) in Kurinji-the hills, Thirumaal (Vishnu) in Mullai-the forests, and Wanji - Ko (Indran -the god of Thunderstorm) in Marutham-the plains, and Varuna (the Water God) in the Neithal-the coasts and the seas and Kotravai (Mother Goddess) in Paalai - the desert. The Sangam landscape was classified into five categories, based on the mood, the season and the land. Now we are going to discuss a tale of how ,many of the tamil tantric deities were given vedic touch as Brahmins came into the screen. Instead of sacrificing a hen or a goat they substituted it with vegetables (to represent animal) and kumkum water ( to represent blood).ĪN EXAMPLE WITH TAMIL FOLK TANTRIC DEITIES As Brahmins were basically vegetarians, as they took over the priesthood of tantric deities they werent able to do the rituals as it was done before. The problem here is that the tantric deities had meat, fish, alcohol also blood sacrifices in their worship systems. ![]() As time passed, majority of the people moved away from agriculture and was more into other business which made them adopt gods from tantric systems and now because of the competition in spiritual fields Brahmins slowly moved away from Vedic systems and started idol worship which was prohibited for them initially. ![]() ![]() The vedic gods were all prayed for good weather and good yield from the agriculture. While at the same period of time, there was many tantric branches which followed idol worship. ![]()
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