The Village Gods of South IndiaH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 172 strán (strany) |
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Strana 24 - Trichinopoly districts of the Tamil country, where the people have been for many generations past far more influenced by civilization and Brahmanism than in the Telugu country, I found that the functions of different deities were far more differentiated and that often elaborate stories were current as to their origin and characters. For example, one of the deities worshipped in almost every village in the Tamil country is Mariamma or Mari, the goddess of small-pox...
Strana 42 - The sole object, then, of the worship of these village deities is to propitiate them and to avert their wrath. There is no idea of praise and thanksgiving, no expression of gratitude or love, no desire for any spiritual or moral blessings. The one object is to get rid of cholera, small-pox, cattle disease, or drought, or to avert some of the minor evils of life.
Strana 91 - Bannas, and they set to work. A pit is dug in the middle room of the house, or in the yard, or the stable, or the field, as the occasion may require. Into this one of the magicians descends. He sits down in Hindu fashion, muttering mantras. Pieces of wood are laid across the pit, and covered with earth a foot or two deep. Upon this platform a fire of jack-wood is kindled, into which butter, sugar, different kinds of grain, etc. are thrown. This sacrifice continues all night, the Panika sacrificer...
Strana 45 - During the procession, the people flourish sticks, swords, and speare to keep off the evil spirits, and, for the same purpose, cut limes in half and throw them up in the air. The idea is that the greedy demons will clutch at the golden limes and carry them off, and so be diverted from any attack on the man who carries the image. When the idol has been duly deposited under the canopy, another procession is made to the house of the toddy-drawer. He is the man who climbs the palm trees and draws off...
Strana 57 - ... silver, copper, iron, and lead, and a large stone, called boddurayee, ie navel-stone, standing about three and a half feet above the ground, very like the ordinary boundary stones seen in the fields. And then, at the entrance of the village, in the centre of the main street, where most of the cattle pass in and out on their way to and from the fields, they dig another hole and bury a pig alive.
Strana 41 - Every village in South India is believed by the people to be surrounded by evil spirits, who are always on the watch to inflict diseases and misfortunes of all kinds on the unhappy villagers. They lurk everywhere, on the tops of palmyra trees, in caves and rocks, in ravines and chasms. They...
Strana 89 - A man, oh mother ! — -but once a devotee shouted ' Al All Amma, Adu ! ' — not a man, oh mother ! a goat ; and since that time a he-goat without blemish has been sacrificed.
Strana 57 - In former times, the Lambadis, before setting out on a journey, used to procure a little child and bury it in the ground up to its shoulders, and then drive their loaded bullocks over the unfortunate victim. In proportion to the bullocks thoroughly trampling the child to death, so their belief in a successful journey increased.
Strana 47 - ... poured in a heap a little further away. All these elaborate proceedings form only the preparations for the great sacrifice which is now about to begin. First the lamb is worshipped and then sacrificed by having its throat cut and its head cut off. A ram is then brought and stood over the first large heap of rice, and is there cut in two, through the back, with a heavy chopper, by one of the village washermen. The blood pours out over the rice and soaks it through. One half of the ram is then...
Strana 84 - At the end of this week the Mane Manchi shrine, which remains closed all the year, is opened. It contains a hole resembling an ant-hill, which is said to be the abode of an unknown serpent, to which the name of Mane Manchamma is given.