Tamil mythology means the stories and sacred narratives belonging to the
Tamil people. This body of mythology is a mix of elements from the pre
Hindu Dravidian and Indus Valley cultures with Vedic and orthodox Hindu
aspects of the Sanskritic tradition.
In the Neolithic period, the Tamils were a
herding, nature oriented culture
with a nature based mythology of deities
of the land. For example, Murugan
was a major god of the hunt like the Greek
Dionysus or Hindu.
He was often
accompanied by a following of beautiful young women who
battled evil forces
and Ventan was a god responsible for rain and general
well being.
A tradition of ecstatic worship involving sexuality and
intoxication
apparently existed among the early Tamils.
In sacred places a li ga like
pillar called a kantu represented the deity.
With the arrival in South India
of the Jains, Buddhists, and Hindu Brahmin
in the third century BCE, the
myths and religious practices of the Tamils
became somewhat codified for
the next thousand years.
In a bid to make India's rural masses Internet savvy, Google launched on
Tuesday an Internet bus that will roll into 15 towns in the state of Tamil
Nadu over a period of one and half months.The bus has Internet
connectivity using satellite, a spokeswoman for Google India said.
At stops,
the bus will provide local people with content in English and the
local language
Tamil, which will give them an understanding of how the
Internet can be used to
meet their needs, Google said.
People will be
shown videos of how a variety of people including
grandparents,
small entrepreneurs, and students are already using the
Internet to their
benefit, it added.
The short story format originated from
Europe. The Tamil world believes
that the short stories in Tamil can be
traced back to the seventeenth century
to Paramartha Kurunkathai a
transition from the classical Tamil poetry.
V.V.S. Iyer started a new trend
in the 1880s giving the short stories its
profound form.
Pudumaipithan started
the next stage of Tamil short
storiesand many other writers came out with
brilliant stories in Tamil.
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