The journey starts from atlantis to ariankavu. Tamils (the pandiyas) are one of the tribes from atlantis. We will discuss about atlantis and the tribes later. Now the focus is on tamils as one of the atlantis tribe. It is very evident tamils moved from ocean land to the main land. The sangam was shifted three times by pandya king. So pandiyas were the first and the foremost Tamil ruler. When pandiyas shifted from the ocean land to present Madurai. The present Madurai kingdaom was ransacked by the kalabiras (the mixed race people) so the pandiya king took refuge in Travancore kingdom and the king became the friend of pandiya and gave him 18 mountains with 1000sqft land for his friend to establish pandiya kingdom . Here one question we have to think, why the pandiyan king had not asked the coastal region whereas he asked the mountain and forest region?.So it is evident that pandiyas had the ocean atrocity shock(kadal khol). So how we know how many tribes pandiyas had? And what was their culture? Sastha will be the answer.
SasthavuSasthavu is the answer for the question of how many tribes pandiya kingdom initially had. Initially pnadiyas had two major tribes they are saivan and mayavan. To put it in present term both saivite and vaisnavite are major tribe of pandiyan kingdom.(vaisnavite were the lost tribe, means moved away from the original practices.) how it is confirmed? The first moved tribes along with pandya king was took hideout in the deeper souther of tamil nadu while the king went to Travancore. Every old unaffected settlement of tamils had only two tribes that is saivan and mayavan.these two tribes exchanges bride and bridegrooms where as in the later part they stopped talking to each other and they don’t take food and water from one another. The later evolution of the both tribe in cultural exchange created animosity between them and stopped the relations.
Saivan And Mayavan
From saivan derives sivan and the followers of shivan are called as saivities . similarly from mayavan derives maya manavan (mayakannan) and the followers of mayavan are mayavities which later derived as vaisnavities (Sanskrit term) shiva is heart oriented god and Vishnu is intellect oriented god. Parvathi sthe sister of Vishnu ! so this relationship got affected among both tribes ,so they both stopped cultural exchange from within the two tribes. There is a tamil proverb “nadaka malaichavan sittapan vitla ponnu katnan” (meaning is , one is called as lazy who took girl in his second father home ) this wis where vaisnavities lost . till today ouor village don’t have separate mother deity for both where as they have father deity as Madurai veeran. After our worship, they come separately with their people and worship. Very interesting observation here is , the drums instrument s are with one tribe (nandhi!!) and the kombu which is the wind instrument is with the mayavan sect (lord krishna’s flute) I love their kombu, their girls are beautiful and our males are good looking. Parvathi is from mayavan sect (sister of Vishnu).so connecting the earlier earlier paragraph with sasthavu (embodiment of shiva and Vishnu)
He is not a symbol of shivite and vaisnavite unity but he is the source of their(pandiyan) history. To further support the analysis lets discuss about utharavaai(literal meaning bloody mouth).
Utharavaai: Bloody Mouth
Utharavai means the heavy feast to their clan deity. When the feast was given to our clan deity the three days from the feast is called as utharvaai. Which means the tribes avoid every family function for three days.(god will be in full mappu ! drousy conditition. Our god akkini veeran has got three days as uthirvaai and mayavans deity Madurai veeran has got 5 days of utharavaai. Our god akkiniveeran is yogi and their god is bhogi(who enjoys more ). Akkini veeran is the ferocious form of shiva where as Madurai veeran is present Vishnu. Shiva is yogi so just 3 days and Vishnu is bhoghi so 5 days of happiness.
Gographical Location:
The third settlement of pandiyan tribes avoided both water bodies and mountains. Mostly I had seen these tribes settled in region where there is no river body or mountains. These tribes are densely settled in the forest between pandruti and virudhachalam in cuddalore district ! (Clue). And both the border has river and they lived in the middle of the forest. Most of the akkini veeran worship are seen in these geographical area. Karupusami, poomaalaiappar, sudalimada sami are out of these settlements. Until the british arrival they were highly pure race and undisturbed. Stunning question is who guided them to reach here? How they found the rivers as demarcation line(not to cross) both the tribes have no knowledge about fishing and technology used for fishing (probably they want to avoid)one thing is sure they still carry the shock of ocean ,our people when they went to velankanni ,I found my grandmother, took a handful of sea water and drizzled over her head and walked out of sea (the answer was we should not bath in sea!!). the evening dryfish gravey smell in the village gives incomparable ecstasy, now recent entrants (new ugly women) are squeezing wheat floor for dinner!!!.mayavan is the last person in the village to have kombu(the last instrumentalist). We had the Best astrologers though still few are there. One thing is clear about the village; just 400 years of American expansion completely damaged the red Indians where as these people could able to survive for 1000s of years and I hope they continue the tradition.
With all my love and prayer this piece of work I dedicate to my grand mother who always tell our glorious past to me. (we had a text called akkini kattu,(the holy scripture) it was burnt along with my grandmother’s home).
