| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Amma (1)" | Dravidian / Tamil | Local tutelary god. Known from southern India.... |
| God name "Manmatha" | Dravidian / Tamil | Form of the god of carnal love. A local southern Indian form of Kama with similar attributes and genealogy, named in Sangam literature.... |
| Goddess name "Bala-Sakti" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Goddess. Youthful deity who presides over six CAKRAS or prayer wheels. Often accompanied by a geometric magical diagram or yantra. Attributes: Book, hook, noose and rosary.... |
| Goddess name "Mariyamman (mother of smallpox)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. A terrible goddess, one of the NAVASAKTIS and linked with the goddess KALI. She is honored in a ritual during which victims (in penance) are suspended from a rope and an iron hook through the flesh of the back and whirled around a pole. Also Mariyattal.... |
| God name "Murukan" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Hunting and war god. Identified with the Hindu god SKANDA. His vehicle is an elephant or a peaçõçk. Color: red. Attributes: spear and staff with gar land.... |
| Goddess name "Muttalamman (pearl-mother)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. Specifically identified with smallpox. Also Mutyalamma.... |
| Goddess name "Puranai (fullness)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Mother goddess. A NAVASAKTI and one of the consorts of Aiyanar.... |
| God name "Sama" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Obscure heroic god. Known circa first to fifth century AD. The younger brother of the god of love KAMA and equating to SAMBA, worshiped in northern India.... |
| God name "Venda" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Creator god. An ancient vegetation deity. Worshiped in villages on the plains, thought to live in trees and equated with Indra.... |
| Goddess name "Kamaksi (of amorous appearance)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Goddess. A SAKTI of SI IVA recognized locally at Kanchipuram, but also in her own right at several places in southern India. Also Kamatchi (Tamil).... |
| Goddess name "Korravai" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | war goddess. Worshiped in desert regions in southern India, thought to live in trees and equating to DURGA. She has a son, MURUKAN. Also Katukilal; Korrawi.... |
"Samkarsana" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Localized form of BALARAMA. Has a complexion white like milk, wears a blue robe with a red garland and carries a nanjil (plough).... |
| God name "Seyon (the red one)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Creator god. An early deity åśśociated particularly with hilly regions in parts of southern India and thought to live in trees. Also Muruga.... |
| God name "Mal" | Dravidian / Tamil | He is a pastoral god whose name means either the the great one or the dark one |
| God name "Murukan/ Ceyon" | Dravidian / Tamil | A hunting & war god |
| God name "Seyon/ Muruga" | Dravidian / Tamil | A creator god |
| God name "Mal" | Early Dravidian / Tamil | Creator god. Probably equating with a syncretization of VIS'NU and KRSNA. The name implies a deity of great stature. In Sangam texts, his face is like the moon, his eyes are lotuses and his CAKRA is the beams of the Sun. Also TIRUMAL.... |
| God name "Tirumal (the excellent black one)" | Early Dravidian / Tamil | Creator god. Thought to reside in trees and equating with VISNU. In later Hinduism used as an epithet of Vis nu.... |
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