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Ayyanar (Tamil: ஐயனார் or அய்யனார்) is a regional Tamil male deity who is popular among the rural social groups of South India, specifically Tamil Nadu. The deity is also popular among most Hindus and some Buddhists in Sri Lanka. He is identified as a Kaval Deivam (guardian angel). Ayyanar temples are found in almost every minority Tamil village in Sri Lanka. Tamil (தமிழ௠) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. ...
The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. ...
In sociology, a group is usually defined as a collection consisting of a number of people who share certain aspects, interact with one another, accept rights and obligations as members of the group and share a common identity. ...
South India is a region of India that includes the entire Indian Peninsula, south of the Vindhya ranges. ...
Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
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Ancient tradition
In ancient Tamilakam people venerated Veerakal, stones erected in memory of fallen warriors. Veerakal that have fully morphed into cultic shrines can be found across South India and especially Tamil Nadu. The ancient Tamil country of the classical era extended from River Krishna to the Cape Comorin(Kanyakumari). ...
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Eastern Orthodox shrine Buddhist shrine just outside Wat Phnom. ...
South India is a region of India that includes the entire Indian Peninsula, south of the Vindhya ranges. ...
Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
Ayyanar worship Ayyanar shrines are usually located at the boundaries of rural villages and the deity is seen riding a horse with a sword. Weapons such as a trident or a lance are also associated with the shrine. Most officiating priests are non-Brahmins and derive from local lineages that had initiated the cult centers generations ago. Trident, Burmese, 18th century A massive sculpture of Lord Shiva holding a trident (Trishula). ...
The term lance has become a catchall for a variety of different pole weapons based on the spear. ...
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The worship pattern is non-agamic and is associated with sacrificial offerings of food, and even animals such as chicken and goats, for favors. In return the local priest might offer flowers or Veeputi (holy ash) to the worshippers. For the Buddhist texts called the Agamas, see Nikaya. ...
Sacrifice is the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship. ...
Ayyanar and Ayyappan A deity with a similar sounding name and origin, Ayyappan, is very popular among the people of neighboring Kerala. Due to the newly emerging popularity of this deity among Tamils in Tamil Nadu and the diaspora, some Ayyanar shrines have been turned into Ayyappan temples, especially in Canada. In Hinduism in the south of India, Ayyappan (alternate names Ayyappa, Ayyappaswami) is a god of fertility and growth. ...
Kerala ( (Anglicised) or (native); Malayalam: േകരളം, — ) is a state on the tropical Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ...
Ayyanar worship among non-Tamils Owing to assimilation and syncretism, Sinhalese buddhist people of Sri Lanka also venerate Ayyanar, calling him Ayyanayake. Assimilation, from Latin assimilatio meaning to render similar, is used to describe various phenomena: schema (psychology), the process of assimilating new ideas into a schema (cognitive structure). ...
Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. ...
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A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, SiddhÄrtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...
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