MUTHAPPAN DEITY OF NORTH KERALA- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

MUTHAPPAN DEITY OF NORTH KERALA- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Probably my next post will be about TANTRA.

If you punch into Google search the word Tantra, you will get 27 million posts-- all bull.

There are hundreds of Tantra masters advertising their wares along with photographs, I guess they think they are SEX PROFESSORS.

To be honest all these charlatans should be thrown into jail and the keys thrown away into the ocean.

Before that let me talk about deities of Kerala before the sixth avatar of Vishnu, Lord Parashurama came from the Saraswati river banks in 4000 BC, with some brahmins who head learnt the Vedas and the Upanishads by heart in tow.

Parashurama was a Kshatriya hater. When he came to Kerala the Vedic 4 tiered caste system did NOT exist.  People lived in harmony worshiping their own deities.

It must be noted that Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma were known to the people of Kerala. Vishnu took his fifth avatar as Vamana ( the blue faced brahmin midget ) to kill our Asura king Mahabali who was adored by the masses. 

This victory of devas over asuras is the original Diwali.  In Kerala we do NOT celebrate Diwali, for we loved our king Mahabali, whom Vishnu killed by deceit.

The Onam festival of Kerala  is to welcome King Mahabali every year at harvest times, to reminisce good times. The rest of India does NOT celebrate this festival. 

This Onam festival is NOT a Hindu festival.  Onam is celebrated by Muslims and Christians and the rest of the religions.

Anyway Parashurama came and donated lands to the Namboodiri Brahmins he brought with him. There were NO Kshatriyas for Parashurama to kill.  Basically he grabbed lands and donated it to the Namboodiris.

Kerala is a narrow strip of land between the Arabian sea and the Western Ghat mountains. In those days , 6000 years ago, Kerala was an advanced society. 

Broadly there were two types of people. The highlanders who stayed on the mountains and the plain dwellers who lived between the sea and the mountain chain.

The highlanders were called Malayyars (mountain top dwellers). 

The plain dwellers were called Thirayyars ( sea wave navigators ).

Parashurama grabbed lands from the Thirayyars , (called Thiyyas now ), who have all shifted to North Kerala, from Trichur to Mangalore. 

They still continue with the matrilineal system, where women are empowered.

The lore says Parashurama threw his axe and reclaimed the sea. The real practical meaning could be that, that he used axe-power to grab the lands.

Even in 4000 BC when Parshurama came here the Thirayyars traded with Palestine, Egypt , and even Crete. Shiva Lingams , or black meteorite stones,  have been seen at places of worship, in Cyprus and Crete. 

The patron saint of the Kerala Thirayyars  is  Rishi Therayar , the first disciple of Maharishi Agastya . Agastya , the greatest of the Sapt Rishis, also famous as the first of the Siddhas , who also founded the Kalari Payattu art of fighting.

Probably in 6000 BC, Crete was connected to the mainland, as later there were huge tectonic shifts and volcanic bursts which sank major parts of this island.

Above wall cave art, see the top RH corner.

See the official Freemason symbol below.

The Edakkal caves of Kerala you can see cave art dated 12000 BC. It shows our sacred symbols. Can you believe this? Rothschild has lifted one of them for the FREE MASON SYMBOL.

Let me talk about the deities  

The British called them Pagan. But I have seen for myself that they are very powerful forces.

Our cook was having a back ache, basically she was living to eat and soon developed a pot belly. It reached a stage that she was earning her wages doing nothing, with my wife slogging in the kitchen.

So I suggested that we must be practical and let go this cook and hire someone else. Or it was like having a watch dog and barking yourself.

It so transpired that my wife told the broker lady to arrange for another cook. And we would continue paying the old cook for another 2 months, and if she still cannot heal her back pain, then tough luck!

The new cook came, my wife interviewed her and we decided to keep her. She was to come after 4 days, after visiting her relatives.

Then after two days the broker lady came to our house and she told my wife " I saw your old cook, praying at the GULIKAN kavu.. There is NO way the new cook can come now, as the Gulikan deity is a powerful negative force ".

When my wife told me this , I  laughed it off.  

In this present era, what black magic and witch craft? TEEE HEEEE!

But my wife is very orthodox in her beliefs. She has retained the full culture of Kerala , despite attending school and college in Mumbai. 

Today after 3 decades of marriage I can say-- my wife has never eaten before me or with me. She will feed me and my sons children first and then eat. 

This may be very difficult for a white man to digest. This is our culture.

If I want to make my wife cry, all I need is to go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea for myself. And then whole say she will mope, like the quintessential cat, wondering what she dragged in , that her master is upset.

Getting back-

The day the new cook was supposed to come we were keeping KV ( keen vigilance ).

She walked nearly 2 kilometers and just 50 metres from our house she fell into the gutter and broke her leg!

Horoscopes are cast by every Hindu of Kerala in which the position of the Gulikan is clearly indicated. The Gulikan’s position indicates when the person will die. 

A red fowl and a ram are sacrificed in the Gulikan’s honour on important festive occasions like Omam and Vishu. 

Sometimes, the oracle of the Gulikan, in trance, directs the fishermen to handle times of crisis. The oracle reveals the causes of illness and discloses the remedy.

Now let me talk about MUTHAPPAN.

The Muthappan deity is known in North Kerala to be very powerful. There is an oracle attached to the temple, who goes into a trance and then can read off akashik ( zero point field ) records.

Soldiers in the Indian army from Kerala , and nearby Tamil Nadu. Karnataka states when they come back home from deadly battle fields like Kargil or Kashmir or Naxal areas, will go to the Muthappan temple first and then go home.

When your life is in extreme danger, you invoke the deity, ask for deliverance, then you have to pay respects ASAP.

Now let me see how this related to me.

My elder son finished his ME at Cornell USA. 

His OPT clearance was just not coming from US Homeland Security. All his friends and class mates who applied 1 month after him got the OPT. 

He could NOT go to college any more to use the recreational facilities as he has passed out. And all his friends had gone away.  This gives an empty feeling.

He suffered mental agony for a month, and then on checking he was told by the US authorities that his OPT application does NOT exist at all in their computer. 

My wife told me that she will invoke Muthappan, as suggested the maid. 

She felt very peaceful after that. Whether it is coincidence or not, the OPT clearance arrived within 3 days.

I was on the ship, so my wife went to Kannur to the Muthappan temple, with her aunt.  She offered coconut toddy liquor, fried dried fish , mongo beans or cherupayar bajee, coconut meat etc.  This is the simple fare, plus a small token fee in currency.

There is a larger temple at Parashini Kadavu , 22 kms off  Kannur.

The origin of the Muthappan temple is connected to the appearance of a good looking child who roamed the area with a string of interesting incidents and later vanished without a trace. 

The incidents up to the point of his disappearance later made the locals feel the divine presence of Muthappan (Siva) who immediately erected a place of worship, which today is popularly known as the Parassinikadavu Muthappan Temple.

Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Namboodiri brahmins offer their prayers here. 

Why not? 

You say in your mind that will make an offering is you get success in what you want- and against all hope,  if you attain success , why not?

The best part is if you make such a mental promise and do NOT go, later after many year , if you go the Oracle in his trance will come to you and ask you why you did not come, when I made so and so of your wish possible for you so many years ago.

Here you can see the Kerala dance form of Theyyam, a ritual that is performed here on a daily basis.  Men adorning masks and costumes with a riot of colors perform this temple art form and it represents conflict between good and evil, with good ultimately emerging victorious.

Sree Muthappan is always accompanied by a dog and dogs are considered sacred here .There are two carved bronze dogs at the entrance of the temple that are believed to symbolize the bodyguards of the God. When the Prasadam  is ready, it is first served to a dog that is always ready inside the temple complex.

A few years ago, temple authorities decided to reduce the number of dogs inside the temple, So they took some dogs and puppies away. That very day, the Oracle came a cropper. He was unable to go into a trace, for the first time,  in thousands of years tradition. 

The spirit of Sree Muthappan enters the performer's body for the duration of the ceremony. Realizing their mistake, the dogs were brought back to the temple by the temple authorities. From that day onwards, Theyyam performances returned to norm.

A lot of you might wonder-- dogs, liquor, dried fish , a guy in a trance -- in a temple?  

YES!

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

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