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Theyyamkaliyattem
Theyyam (/ t̪eːjjəm/; romanised: ''teyyam'') are Hindu ritualistic dance forms practiced in northern Kerala and some parts of Karnataka. Theyyam is also known as Kaḷiyāṭṭaṁ or Tiṟa. Theyyam consists of traditions, rituals and customs associated with temples and sacred groves of Malabar. The people of the region consider Theyyam itself as a channel to a god and they thus seek blessings from Theyyam. In Kasaragod and Kannur districts, this ritual art is mainly performed in the kavus (temples) or ancestral houses of Nambiar, Thiyyar, Vaniyar and Maniyani communities. Theyyam is typically performed by people from castes and tribes like Pulayar, Vannan, Malayan, Anhoottan, Munnoottan, Mavilan, Koppalan, Velan, Chingathan, Kalanaadi, Paravan, Nalikeyavar etc. Of these Kalanaadi people perform only in Wayanad district, while Parava, Pampatha, Nalikeyavar perform in places north of Kerala like Udupi, Krishnapuram etc. There are about 456 types of Theyyams documente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puliyoor Kali Theyyam At Mathamangalam
Puliyoor is a village in Chengannur municipality in Alappuzha district in the Indian state of Kerala. The schools in the village include Government HS Puliyoor, Govt U.P. School Perissery, Vallikkav LP School and Snehagiri U.P School. Government UP School was the first established school in the area and is over 100 years old. Today's school building is built using the timber obtained from the floodwaters during the Great flood of 99. Thrippuliyoor Mahadevakshethram (Puliyoor Temple) is the famous temple here which is mentioned in Thirukkural and Alvar scripts and is a main attraction. It is one of the 108 Vaishnava temples (Divya Desam) and is believed to be established before 6th century CE. Today, many social associations and cultural clubs, libraries, temples and churches strengthen the culture of the region. Etymology It is widely believed that the name Puliyoor came from the phrase "puliye kanda ooru" meaning "Land where the leopard was spotted". History In ancient t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koyilandy
A Survey of Kerala History, A. Shreedhara Menon ar, Fundriya pt, Pandarani , settlement_type = MunicipalityTaluk , image_skyline = KadaloorPointLight 01.jpg , image_alt = , image_caption = Kadaloor Point lighthouse, Koyilandy , pushpin_map = India Kerala#India , pushpin_label_position = right , pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kerala, India , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_name1 = Kerala , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = North Malabar , subdivision_type3 = District , subdivision_name3 = Kozhikode , established_title = , established_date = , founder = , named_for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishnumoorthy Theyyam
Vishnumoorthy Theyyam is a Thiyya community temple ritual form of dance worship in Kerala and Karnataka, India. Theyyam consisted of several thousand-year-old traditions, rituals and customs. The performance includes complicated rites and rituals. The peculiar drum-beats can be heard up to a distance of 2 km from where the performance of the Vishnumoorthi Theyyam takes place. The enactment involving the Narasimha Avatar of Lord Vishnu by the Koladhari especially thrills the devotees and the spectators as a result of the body movements involved in it. Story of Vishnumoorthi The most popular part of the Vaishnava Theyyam is the depiction of Vishnumoorthi. It is associated with Nileshwar and Jeppu Kudupady - Mangalore. It tells the story of Palanthai Kannan, a great devotee of Lord Vishnu. Palanthai Kannan, a native of Nileshwar in his boyhood, tried to pick mangoes from a mango tree owned by Kuruvat Kurup. Without considering his age or the thirst for food, Kuruvat Kurup an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathivanoor Veeran
Kathivanoor Veeran ( Also known as the Mandhappan Chekavar) is a deity worshiped in North Malabar region in Kerala, India. The word 'Veeran' in Malayalam means 'Hero' in English. According to the myths, the Kathivanoor Veeran is apotheosis of Thiyya warrior Mandappan Chekavar. Mandappan's life and his transformation into god are still active in the folklore of Kolathunadu region, and is practiced as theyyam in various temples in present-day Kannur district, Kannur and Kasaragod district, Kasaragod districts. Kathivanoor Veeran Theyyam is one of the most popular Theyyams in North Malabar. Women of North Malabar region worship Kathivanoor Veeran to get a healthy husband. Myth Mandappan Chekavar (also spelled as Mannappan) who later became the deity Kathivanoor Veeran was born to Kumarachan of Mangad Methaliyillam house and Chaki Amma of Parakayillam house. It is said that Mandappan, a resident of present-day Mangad in Kannur district was born with the blessings of goddess Chuzali. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vettakkorumakan
Vettakkoru Makan () is a Hindu deity worshipped in parts of Malabar District, Northern Kerala. This deity is alternately referred as Kiratha-Sunu (son of Kirata) in Sanskrit.Religion, art and culture, S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer, College Book House, 1977Temples of Kaṇṇoor̳ District, S. Jayashanker, India. Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala, Controller of Publications, 2001 Vettakkorumakan is believed to be the son of Lord Shiva by his consort Parvathi, born when he assumed the form of a Kirata (hunter) to deliver a weapon known as Pashupathasthra to Arjuna. He is mostly and exclusively worshipped in Malabar (Northern Kerala), Malabar region of Kerala. The most famous temple of this deity is the Kurumbranad, Balussery-Kotta Vettakkorumakan temple about 25 km from Kozhikode, Calicut. This was once the fort of the Rajas of Kurumbranad. Other prominent temples are at Ramanthali, Nileshwar, Kottakkal, Nilambur, Karaparamba and various places in Kannur district and Kasargod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalcolithic
The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin '' aeneus'' "of copper"), is an archaeological period characterized by regular human manipulation of copper, but prior to the discovery of bronze alloys. Modern researchers consider the period as a subset of the broader Neolithic, but earlier scholars defined it as a transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The archaeological site of Belovode, on Rudnik mountain in Serbia, has the world's oldest securely dated evidence of copper smelting at high temperature, from (7000 BP). The transition from Copper Age to Bronze Age in Europe occurred between the late 5th and the late In the Ancient Near East the Copper Age covered about the same period, beginning in the late and lasting for about a millennium before it gave rise to the Early Bronze Age. Terminology The multiple names result from m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts of the world. This "Neolithic package" included the introduction of farming, domestication of animals, and change from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settlement. It began about 12,000 years ago when farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of the world. The Neolithic lasted in the Near East until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BC), marked by the development of metallurgy, leading up to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. In other places the Neolithic followed the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) and then lasted until later. In Ancient Egypt, the Neolithic lasted until the Protodynastic period, 3150 BC.Karin Sowada and Peter Grave. Egypt in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bali Theyyam, Payyannur
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most populous city in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second-largest, after Makassar, in Eastern Indonesia. The upland town of Ubud in Greater Denpasar is considered Bali's cultural centre. The province is Indonesia's main tourist destination, with a significant rise in tourism since the 1980s. Tourism-related business makes up 80% of its economy. Bali is the only Hindu-majority province in Indonesia, with 86.9% of the population adhering to Balinese Hinduism. It is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional and modern dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking, and music. The Indonesian International Film Festival is held every year in Bali. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolathiri
Kolathiri or Kolathiri Rājā (King of KolathunāduA. Shreedhara Menon (2007), ''A brief History of Kerala'', DC Books, Kottayam or King of Cannanore in foreign accounts) was the title by which the senior-most male along the matrilineal line of the Mushika or Kolathunādu Royal Family (Kolaswarũpam) based at North Malabar region was styled.Duarte Barbosa, The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants, II, ed.M. L Dames (repr., London: Hakluyt Society, 1921)The Dutch in Malabar: Selection from the Records of the Madras Government, No. 13 (Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1911), 143. It's a descendent of the Mushika dynasty. The Indian anthropologist Ayinapalli Aiyappan states that a powerful and warlike clan of the Bunt community of Tulu Nadu was called ''Kola Bari'' and the Kolathiri Raja of Kolathunadu was a descendant of this clan. The Kolathiri family and the Travancore family reciprocall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy Temple
Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy Temple, ''Bhadrakali Shrine'' located near Valapattanam river, is the family shrine of ''Chirakkal Royal Family''. The deity of the shrine is the fierce form of ''Bhadrakali''. ''Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy'' is considered as the mother of the ancient martial art ''Kalarippayattu'' and hence the name. The shrine is administered by ''Malabar Devaswom Board'' and classified as ''Category A'' Temple of the board. Kalarivathukkal has come from the word Kalari Vaatilkal. Legend The ''holy shrine'' is one of the ''Devi temple'' triads of the erstwhile Chirakkal Kingdom. The other two being ''Cherukunnu Annapoornashwari Temple'' and ''Tiruvarkadu Bhagavathy Temple''(''Madayi kavu''). The mythology says that Annapoornashwari came from Kasi to Chirakkal in a boat along with ''Kalarivatukkalamma and Madayikkavilamma'' who were her mates; to see the Krishna Temple and never returned. The Chirakkal Kings were the successors of Kolathiris' who in-turn was the dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madayi Kavu
Thiruvarkadu Bhagavathi Temple (a.k.a. Madayi Kavu) is the mother temple of all Bhadrakali shrines of North Kerala. The deity is the ''Fierce form of Bhadrakali''. The Bhagavathy is addressed by tantrics in the vicinity as ''Tiruvarkkad Achchi'' due to this. The temple administration is Malabar Devaswom Board. The temple is a revered shrine of Chirakkal Royal Family and a shrine of Chirakkal devaswom before. The temple is situated in Madayi, Payangadi, hence prominently known as Madayi Kavu. Dress code * Men: Traditional Mundu allowed :Lungi, shirt and Banian not allowed inside sanctum sanctorum * Women: Salwar Kameez, saree, Set Mundu, skirts and blouse allowed. Jeans is not allowed inside the temple Etymology The temple is addressed as ''Thiruvarkkadu Bhagavathy'', ''Thiruvar''-in proto-Tamil-Manipravalam is used to address Shiva of the shrine, i.e. The most respectable one. The temple architecture of some shrines in the region shows how the Goddess is perceived in the regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thulam
The Malayalam Calendar is a sidereal solar calendar used in Kerala. The origin of the calendar has been dated to 825 CE, the beginning of the Kollam Era. There are many theories regarding the origin of the era, but according to recent scholarship, it commemorated the foundation of Kollam after the liberation of the southern Chera kingdom (known as Venadu) from the Chola dynasty's rule by or with the assistance of the Chera emperor at Kodungallur. The origin of the Kollam Era has been dated to 825 CE, at the end of the three year-long great convention in Kollam held at the behest of the Venadu King Kulasekharan. Scholars from west and east were present in the convention, and the Thamizh Kanakku (Calendar) was adopted. Kollam was the capital of Venadu and an important port town of the Chera Kingdom in that period. Kollam Aandu was adapted in the entire Chera Kingdom (the current day states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala), the majority of which is now in Kerala. In Malaya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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