![]() ![]() In a recent video interview, Suki Sivam made the following points: Vedic Subrahmaniya is essentially a deity for Brahmins or Brahminism. However, now, when a person like Suki Sivam asserts a binary for Murugan and alleges appropriation, then that can create quite a lot of confusion and may supply respectability to the crank theories of Seeman. Seeman or Simon of Naam Tamizhar Katchi is in the forefront of this bizarre ideological propagation, while also alleging that Murugan worship is only ancestral worship appropriated by a BrahminicalAryan religion.įortunately in Tamil Nadu, the spiritual traditions which have centered around Murugan are so strong and culturally affluent that most Tamils can easily see the absurdity of these claims for themselves.įor example, when Seeman claims that he has DNA relations closer to Murugan than Brahmins in Tamil Nandu, every Tamil Hindu child knows that Murugan, being the light of Brahman, has neither birth nor death. Thus again, a binary is created where Tamil worship is correlated with a kind of primitive communism and VedicAryanBrahminical worship is depicted as a kind of primitive racism, exhibiting hierarchical and apartheid tendencies. So the Tamil separatist movement, which too has the backing of the evangelical industry, reduces all Tamil Hindu worship to ancestral or primitive forms of worship. The Dravidian movement constructed a Tamil identity in which all past was considered irrational and superstitious. Though in a way, this is a recycling of old Dravidian racial theory, with respect to the Dravidian movement itself, there is a crucial difference. In Tamil Nadu, after the Church-sponsored Dravidianist movement failed to destroy Hinduism, the new strategy being adopted is to claim that Tamil deities are different from Tamil methods of worship. For the last few years, however, he has been catering to the Dravidianist and Tamil separatist constituency in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. ![]()
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