Rereading of Aaravalli Sooravalli Songs

Abstract

Folk literature has many different genres. They are folktales, myths, worships, beliefs, rituals, proverbs, idioms and performing arts. They found that the ideas in the songs and stories presented in the folk literature are aimed at reconstructing the history and so they theorized them. The history of Folk literature helps to reconstruct the history of the grassroot people and to advance identity politics. Narrative songs also have such characteristics but mythological narratives can have an impact on social psychology. Various stories based on the Mahabharata are found in Tamil. They are Archuna's penance, Karnamagarajan's story, Pavalakodi's story, Alli Arasani's garland, Draupadi's story. A story related to this is called Aaravalli Sooravalli songs. In this story seven sisters like Aaravalli Sooravalli created a kingdom for themselves and ruled it. One who oppose their kingdom are enslaved with their magical tricks. Unable to defeat them, Kannan, who helps the Pandavas in the Mahabharata, decides to fight against them to quell the seven sister’s arrogance and the arrogance of Veeman, who says that there is no one to defeat him. Inorder to avoid the war Dharma says that beeman is going to defeat everyone. Here women are portrayed as arrogant and invincible. These types of portrayals appear to evoke male self-reliance in social psychology. This article highlights the stereotypes that make women feel oppressed.