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Of late, a dangerous form of Tamil secessionism has been seeking to appropriate Murugan, a Hindu deity, worshipped widely in Tamil Nadu for at least over two millennia.
Murugan is the younger son of Shiva and Parvati. His other names include Subramanya, Kartikeya and Skanda.
The aim of this secessionist movement is to remove all the cultural and spiritual significance attributed to Murugan. Their claim? Murugan was originally a patriarch — a historical personality, and that the worship of Murugan is nothing but the worship of ancestors.
It is important to understand that such claims are essentially uninformed, unscholarly opinions of an intolerant fringe. Over the years, such fringe groups have emerged as ‘breaking India’ forces trying to attain critical mass in the political arena.
This so-called movement is led by Seeman, the founder-leader of the Naam Tamilar party. Seeman is a rabble-rousing Tamil chauvinist, one of the same fringe elements in mainstream Tamil politics. He not only advocates a separate racial and linguistic identity for Tamils but is attempting to distort their religious identity.
The Dravidian movement was given a lot of tactical but not overt Church support. While the Dravidian movement considered all Tamil Hindu culture as an Aryan Brahminical imposition, Seeman takes a more mischievous step. He claims that the original Tamil religion and culture were different and were corrupted by ‘Aryan Brahmins’. He claims Shiva and Murugan to be his ancestors.
This effectively reduces the spiritual aspects of Tamil culture to naught. So Shiva is no more the cosmic principle but an ethnic ancestral totem symbol. Similarly, traditional Tamil music and dance forms, temple architecture and literature — can all be reduced to ethnic elements and secularised.
This claim, where Hindu deities are posited as secular ethnic ancestors, plays directly into the Christian evangelical agenda. Because, these deities can then be secularised and eventually Christianised
https://swarajyamag.com/videos/watch-in-tamil-nadu-breaking-india-forces-lay-siege-on-murugan
Murugan is the younger son of Shiva and Parvati. His other names include Subramanya, Kartikeya and Skanda.
The aim of this secessionist movement is to remove all the cultural and spiritual significance attributed to Murugan. Their claim? Murugan was originally a patriarch — a historical personality, and that the worship of Murugan is nothing but the worship of ancestors.
It is important to understand that such claims are essentially uninformed, unscholarly opinions of an intolerant fringe. Over the years, such fringe groups have emerged as ‘breaking India’ forces trying to attain critical mass in the political arena.
This so-called movement is led by Seeman, the founder-leader of the Naam Tamilar party. Seeman is a rabble-rousing Tamil chauvinist, one of the same fringe elements in mainstream Tamil politics. He not only advocates a separate racial and linguistic identity for Tamils but is attempting to distort their religious identity.
The Dravidian movement was given a lot of tactical but not overt Church support. While the Dravidian movement considered all Tamil Hindu culture as an Aryan Brahminical imposition, Seeman takes a more mischievous step. He claims that the original Tamil religion and culture were different and were corrupted by ‘Aryan Brahmins’. He claims Shiva and Murugan to be his ancestors.
This effectively reduces the spiritual aspects of Tamil culture to naught. So Shiva is no more the cosmic principle but an ethnic ancestral totem symbol. Similarly, traditional Tamil music and dance forms, temple architecture and literature — can all be reduced to ethnic elements and secularised.
This claim, where Hindu deities are posited as secular ethnic ancestors, plays directly into the Christian evangelical agenda. Because, these deities can then be secularised and eventually Christianised
https://swarajyamag.com/videos/watch-in-tamil-nadu-breaking-india-forces-lay-siege-on-murugan
