Abstract 51
Sujatha Vijayaraghavan
Divinisation
in the Tamil Folktale: the discourse of socio-cultural topography
Abstract
As in
folktales all over the world, particularly so in India, gods and goddesses
traffic freely with people and participate
in the events of life without any line of division dividing them from
the latter as inferior to them, while at the same time retaining their
all-powerful stand. These gods and goddesses are generally of three kinds: child gods, especially emerging from the
girl-child, male deities and female divines and deities. Some are
boundary-markers and guardian deities, particularly the gods, while the first
and the last are usually the repositories of the vision and values of the
particular societies to which they belong. However each has a strongly
persisting legend behind it. This paper explores the emergence and sustenance
of these gods and goddesses as discursive spaces of the socio-cultural
topography of specific communities, particularly as epistemes of local
histories.
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