Kantara in Kerala
1. This thread shows Indians are closely connected to the supernatural. There was a story in our family we had migrated from Kozhikode to South Malabar. My ancestors took with them a bas relief of our Muthappan (sort of kul devta), unique to each Thiyya family.
1. This thread shows Indians are closely connected to the supernatural. There was a story in our family we had migrated from Kozhikode to South Malabar. My ancestors took with them a bas relief of our Muthappan (sort of kul devta), unique to each Thiyya family.
2. They were told to keep walking along the coast till they saw an old Namboodiri Brahmin woman carrying an umbrella. After walking around 100 km they saw an old lady with an umbrella as predicted and established their village and temple in that spot.
3. That temple is now one of the most famous in central Kerala. Our Muthappan has been "seated" there and is worshipped along with the chief deity - the Devi Bhagwati.
4. No Vedic gods were worshipped at our temple until the 1980s but as the temple expanded, the exterior walls were covered with frescos of Saraswati, Lakshmi and other Gods and Goddesses.
5. Sometime during the 1980s, the village elders decided to find out if the Kozhikode story was true, and whether the question could be answered by the Muthappan. So a puja was conducted and the deity was invoked and He provided the name of a village in the Kozhikode area.
6. The elders selected a representative from our family and sent him off to that particular village. When he reached the village in Kozhikode, he saw a small party of men and women gathered at the house of an elderly Thiyya.
7. He walked up to them and told them he had come from South Malabar and was looking for this particular family. They welcomed him with warmth and said he had come to the right house.
8. But he got the surprise of his life when they told him they were waiting for him because their deity had communicated via an oracle that a separated family unit would seek to reunite on that exact day.
9. Like many Hindus I considered myself a rationalist. And frankly, I hope there is no life after death. I hope there is no heaven, no hell, no gods, nothing. But I can't deny that such incidents prove there is something out there. A true rationalist cannot deny divinity exists.
10. And if family deities like Muthappan exist then it follows that the greater Gods like Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva and Durga also exist.
Kantara exists in every village in India.
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Kantara exists in every village in India.
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