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Thiruvancheri Kavu
Thiruvancheri Kavu is located near Kuthuparamba, Kannur district, Kerala. It is a site of ancient worship where Shakteya rituals are performed. The temple is notable for its integration of Shakta and Shaiva traditions. It is one of the 13 Shakteya temples in Kerala related to Kashmir Shaivism. The temple was destroyed 200 250 years ago. The Kingdom of Kottayam initiated rebuilding the temple after finding the destroyed remains. The deity is the family goddess of the western branch of the Kingdom of Kottayam. Pazhassi Raja belongs to this family. Temple architecture and deities Thiruvanjeri Kavu is designed according to the traditional Kerala temple architecture known as Rurujith Vidhanam. The temple complex houses two sanctum sanctorum where the deities Bhadrakali, Saptha Mathrukkal, Ganapathy, and Virabhadra are enshrined facing the sanctum sanctorum of Shiva Shiva (; , ), also known as Mahadeva (; , , Help:IPA/Sanskrit, ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh and Hara, is one of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuthuparamba
Kuthuparamba or Koothuparamba is a municipality in Kannur district of Kerala, India. It is about 24 km southeast of Kannur and 14 km east of Thalassery. Administration Kuthuparamba Municipality is a part of Kuthuparamba Assembly constituency under Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency. Municipal wards The town is administered by Kuthuparamba Municipality, headed by a chairman. For administrative purposes, the town is divided into 28 wards. The ruling party is CPI(M) with M. Sukumaran as the municipal chairman. Law and order The municipality comes under jurisdiction of Kuthuparamba Police Station, which was formed in 1871. The station limit is 72.68 km² covering five villages, Kuthuparamba, Paduvilayi, Pathiriyad, Kandamkunnu and Mangattidam, which includes Kuthuparamba municipality and panchayats like Vengad and Mangattidom. Kuthuparamba is one of the three police sub-divisions in Kannur city formed on February 18, 2021. Kuthuparamba sub-division comprises s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madayi Kavu
Madayikavu (Māḍāyik्kavu), also known as Thiruvarkadu Bhagavathi Temple, is an ancient Kaula (Hinduism), Kaula Shakti shrine in Kerala, located near Pazhayangadi, Kannur. With a history over two millennia long, the Sacred groves of India, sacred grove was administered by various regional dynasties. The Bhagavathi was revered by these dynasties as their royal family deity, and they also carried out renovations of the Kavu at multiple junctures throughout history. Renovation in modern time is taken care by devotees. Madaayikkavu enshrines the fierce form of Bhadrakali and is regarded as the 'mother temple' of North Kerala's Bhadrakali shrines. This is due to the practice of consecrating idols in many regional temples through rituals originating from Thiruvarkkadu temple, with those deities considered avatars of the deity of Madaayikkavu. The temple complex houses deities Shiva, Matrikas, Saptha Mathrika, Ganesha, Ganapathy, Virabhadra, Veerabhadra, Kshetrapala, and Shasta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Goddesses
A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator- and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties thereof in a maternal relation with humanity or other gods. When equated in this lattermost function with the earth or the natural world, such goddesses are sometimes referred to as the Mother Earth or Earth Mother, deity in various animistic or pantheistic religions. The earth goddess is archetypally the wife or feminine counterpart of the Sky Father or ''Father Heaven'', particularly in theologies derived from the Proto-Indo-European sphere (i.e. from Dheghom and Dyeus). In some polytheistic cultures, such as the Ancient Egyptian religion which narrates the cosmic egg myth, the sky is instead seen as the Heavenly Mother or Sky Mother as in Nut and Hathor, and the earth god is regarded as the male, pater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindu Tantra
Tantra (; ) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the India, Indian subcontinent beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE, first within Shaivism and later in Buddhism. The term ''tantra'', in the Greater India, Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable "text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice". A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras, and thus they are commonly referred to as Mantramārga ("Path of Mantra") in Hinduism or Mantrayāna ("Mantra Vehicle") and Guhyamantra ("Secret Mantra") in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the Vajrayana traditions are known for tantric ideas and practices, which are based on Indian Tantras (Buddhism), Buddhist Tantras. They include Tibetan Buddhism, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Japanese Shingon Buddhism and Nepalese Newar Buddhism. Although Southern Esoteric Buddhism does not directly reference the tantras, its practices and ideas parallel them. In Bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaktism
Shaktism () is a major Hindu denomination in which the God in Hinduism, deity or metaphysics, metaphysical reality is considered metaphorically to be a woman. Shaktism involves a galaxy of goddesses, all regarded as different aspects, manifestations, or personifications of the divine feminine energy called ''Shakti''. It includes various modes of worship, ranging from those focused on the most worshipped Durga, to gracious Parvati, and the fierce Kali. After the decline of Buddhism in India, various Hindu and Buddhist goddesses were combined to form the Mahavidya, a Pantheon (religion), pantheon of ten goddesses. The most common forms of the Mahadevi worshipped in Shaktism include: Durga, Kali, Saraswati, Lakshmi, Parvati, and Tripura Sundari. Also worshipped are the various Gramadevatas across the Indian villages. Shaktism also encompasses various Tantra#Śaiva and Śākta tantra, tantric sub-traditions, including Vidyapitha and Kulamārga. Shaktism emphasizes that intense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakti Temples
Shakti (Devanagari: शक्ति, IAST: Śakti; 'energy, ability, strength, effort, power, might, capability') in Hinduism, is the "Universal Power" that underlies and sustains all existence. Conceived as feminine in essence, Shakti refers to the personified energy or power of a male deity, often personified as the female consort of the given Hindu god. In Tantric Shaktism, Shakti is the foremost deity, akin to Brahman. In Puranic Hinduism, Shiva and Shakti are the masculine and feminine principles that are complementary to each other. The male deity is ''purusha'', pure consciousness, which creates the universe through the female creative energy of Shakti, which is ''prakriti'', 'nature'. The term ''Shakta'' is used for the description of people associated with Shakti worship. The Shakta pithas are shrines, which are believed to be the sacred seats of Shakti. Etymology and overview According to the Monier-Williams dictionary, the term ''Shakti'' (''Śakti'') is the san ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindu Temples In Kannur District
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent. It is assumed that the term ''"Hindu"'' traces back to Avestan scripture Vendidad which refers to land of seven rivers as Hapta Hendu which itself is a cognate to Sanskrit term ''Sapta Sindhuḥ''. (The term ''Sapta Sindhuḥ'' is mentioned in Rig Veda and refers to a North western Indian region of seven rivers and to India as a whole.) The Greek cognates of the same terms are "''Indus''" (for the river) and "''India''" (for the land of the river). Likewise the Hebrew cognate ''hōd-dū'' refers to India mentioned in Hebrew BibleEsther 1:1. The term "''Hindu''" also implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panayannarkavu
Panayannarkavu is a small village In Thiruvalla Sub-District on Parumala Island in the Pamba River in Thiruvalla taluk of Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, India. The village is known for the presence of the Parumala Valiya Panayannarkavu Devi Temple, of which Saptha matha (Seven Goddess) is the presiding power. There is also a temple of Siva on the premises. Panayannarkavu is from Mannar, a village known for its bell-metal lamps and vessels. Until recently, esoteric tantric rituals were conducted in this Saktheya temple. See also 13 Shakteya Temples of Kerala # Mannampurath Kavu, Neeleswaram # Thiruvarkkattu Kavu (Madaayi Kavu), Pazhayangadi # Kalari Vatulkkal Kavu, Valapattanam # Mamanikkunnu Kavu, Irikkur # Thiruvancheri Kavu, Kuthuparamba # Kaliyam Kavu, Vadakara, Edacheri # Pishari Kavu, Koyilandi, Kollam(Malabar) # Thiruvalayanaadu Kavu, Kozhikode # Kodikkunnathu Kavu, Pattambi # Thirumandham kunnu Kavu, Angadippuram # Kodungallur Kavu, Thrissur # Muthoot Kavu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple
Sree Kurumba Bhagavati Temple (alternatively Kodungallur Kav) is a Hindu temple at Kodungallur, Thrissur District, Kerala state, India. It is dedicated to the goddess Bhadrakali, a form of Kali, Mahakali worshipped and significantly revered in Kerala. The goddess is known also by the names ''"Sri Kurumba"'' (The Mother of Kodungallur). This temple is the head of 64 Bhadrakali kavus in Malabar district, Malabar. This Kali, Mahakali temple is one of the oldest functioning temples in India. The goddess of the temple represents the goddess in her fierce ('ugra') form, facing North, featuring eight hands with various attributes. One is holding the head of the demon king Daruka, another a sickle-shaped sword, next an anklet, another a bell, among others. The temple is often accredited as the original form of Goddess Kali. During the reign of Kulasekhara dynasty (Second Cheras), Later Cheras, Mahodayapuram (Kodungallur) was the capital of the Chera empire and one of the most importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirumandhamkunnu Temple
Thirumandhamkunnu Temple is a historically significant Hindu temple in Angadipuram, which was the capital of Valluvanad Rajavamsham, in Malappuram district, Kerala state, South India. The temple deity, ''Thirumandhamkunnil amma'', was the paradevatha (official goddess) of the kings of Valluvanad, the local feudal kings ruled the area in the Middle Ages. The Nair warriors (called Chavers, literally "martyrs") of Valluvanad king set out from this temple to Thirunavaya, to participate in the famous Mamankam festival. A memorial structure called the ''chaver thara'' ("platform of the martyrs") can be found in front of the main entrance of the Thirumanthamkunnu Temple. The temple is also an important pilgrim center, especially for the eleven-day-long annual festival celebrated in March and April months of the Gregorian calendar. The "principal deity" of temple is Lord Shiva. But the famous deity is Sree Bhadrakali or Sree Parvathy, locally known as ''Thirumandhamkunnilamma'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisharikavu
Pisharikavu Temple is a temple of the Hindu goddess Bhadrakali at Kollam, Koyilandy, Kozhikode district, North Malabar region of Kerala state of south India. References {{reflist Hindu temples in Kozhikode district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalarivathukkal Temple
Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy Temple, ''Bhadrakali Shrine'' located near Valapattanam river. The deity of the shrine is the fierce form of ''Bhadrakali''. ''Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy'' is considered as the mother of the ancient martial art ''Kalarippayattu'' and hence the name. The shrine is administered by ''Malabar Devaswom Board'' and classified as ''Category A'' Temple of the board. Kalarivathukkal has come from the word Kalari Vaatilkal. Legend The holy shrine is one of the Devi temple triads of the erstwhile Chirakkal Kingdom. The other two being ''Cherukunnu Annapoornashwari Temple'' and ''Tiruvarkadu Bhagavathy Temple''(''Madayi kavu''). The mythology says that Annapoornashwari came from Kasi to Chirakkal in a boat along with ''Kalarivatukkalamma and Madayikkavilamma'' who were her mates; to see the Krishna Temple and never returned. The Kolathiris relocated their capital from ''Ezhimala'' to ''Chirakkal'' near Valapattanam river . They were in recorded history known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
