Its the grand Aadi season here in Tamil Nadu wherever you go you'd be followed by awful noise from no mercy speakers masqueraded as a devotional song. Yes, this is the first post dedicated to it. Hindu is not a religion but it's idealism, a way to unite people, that's perfectly constructed by assuming separate task to every God, no single God worship. Hindus moved from nature worship to idol worship, but that doesn't mean that we don't have nature worship we have created an idol for them and continued to worship them in a different form.
Snake is a beautiful reptile, I have made friend with few too... Our ancestor found the natural law, 'every living creature on earth is important for the ecosystem to be balanced'. Maybe to make sure snakes are not killed fearing their venom they made them as God too! Not just idol snakes, they are worshipped as they are at their conquered(from rats and termite) nest or puthu.
Let us not concentrate if snake drinks milk or broken raw egg, but we have to understand the fact that neither snakes builts a towering puthu. The milk is meant for true builders of the puthu - 'Termite'. These puthu as its worshipped decades ago without the new idea of renovating was a true resident for both termite and snake. While rain collapses it, they are re-built around shrubs and plants, giving enough space for snakes to hide for prey.
But when single god worship started spreading like never before, Hindus started believing that they are also a religion which sadly made them re-structure every temple which was actually meant for cultural & architectural importance, social gathering, eco-system balancing, treasure chest and governing.
The temple you see to the right of this text is close to my home, awesome place to visit; waterbody in the background is Nanmangalam yeri. I have hyperlinked Google map try to visit, its a nice place to spend an evening.
Puthu kovil is no exception to re-structuring process, now it is getting the cement touch; leaving no space for the termite to built or snake to slither. And guess the result puthu is getting low on height every day... now people blame each other for not being pure 😝 lame! Then to make the gods happy as they put it they have crazy aadi festival. And guess how the fund is generated? yes, its flows from our pocket and returns to us as noise in ears and punch in the face when you deter to change this flawed process.
Snake is a beautiful reptile, I have made friend with few too... Our ancestor found the natural law, 'every living creature on earth is important for the ecosystem to be balanced'. Maybe to make sure snakes are not killed fearing their venom they made them as God too! Not just idol snakes, they are worshipped as they are at their conquered(from rats and termite) nest or puthu.
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| Puthu as it used to be in open aside shrubs |
But when single god worship started spreading like never before, Hindus started believing that they are also a religion which sadly made them re-structure every temple which was actually meant for cultural & architectural importance, social gathering, eco-system balancing, treasure chest and governing.
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| Snake un-friendly snake temple! |
The temple you see to the right of this text is close to my home, awesome place to visit; waterbody in the background is Nanmangalam yeri. I have hyperlinked Google map try to visit, its a nice place to spend an evening.
Puthu kovil is no exception to re-structuring process, now it is getting the cement touch; leaving no space for the termite to built or snake to slither. And guess the result puthu is getting low on height every day... now people blame each other for not being pure 😝 lame! Then to make the gods happy as they put it they have crazy aadi festival. And guess how the fund is generated? yes, its flows from our pocket and returns to us as noise in ears and punch in the face when you deter to change this flawed process.
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