Vol. 4 No. S-20 (2022): Volume 4, Issue S-20, Year 2022
Articles

Human Relations in The Worship of Deities Found in Ancient Tamil Literary Songs

Mahalakshmi A
Department of Tamil, Meenaakshi Ramasamy Educational Institutions, Thathanur (Post), Udaiyarpalayam (Tk), Ariyalur (Districk)–621 804, Tamil Nadu, India

Published 2022-11-05

Keywords

  • Tamil Literary Songs,
  • Worship,
  • Human Relations,
  • Tradition

How to Cite

A, M. (2022). Human Relations in The Worship of Deities Found in Ancient Tamil Literary Songs. International Research Journal of Tamil, 4(S-20), 193-196. https://doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s2028

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Abstract

The Tamils divided the land into five kinds, according to the characteristics of land, and made it a tradition to cherish and enrich nature, realized that the fallen flowers did not stick to the flowers, did not get the days spent, respected the soil, loved the wind, desired the rain, took up life as a life of flowers, plants, vines, coloured birds, sweating, etc., and thought of it as a life mixed with nature. Since literature was a part of the culture, the Sangam poets were rich in grammar and literary richness in ancient literature, which is the best literature that compiles the culture in written form, by organizing it into biographical data that describes the culture of the people. Therefore, by painting the virtues and civilizational character of the ancient Tamil people in their songs without transgressing tradition and unchanging from tradition, the worldly, the psychology, the well-known ones of the values of life in order to be spoken in a sequence, and the moral ideas to be lived in a manner that is to be lived in the praise of the good, the reproach the unwanted ones, and the society which has developed as an expression of the human emotions of the human mind, in the pursuit of the task of the social work of the social and religious human life. A society that has developed as an expression of human consciousness, from the background of religious human life to the equivalent of the fruits of labour in the fulfillment of social duty, still possesses the primitive elements of the various forms of worship, customs, beliefs, and rituals that we carry out, and has grown to the level of individual life, such as ethnic life, and has grown into a society, recognizing the antiquity of human worship, and begin to worship God. The purpose of this article is to briefly see how the man who started the inner fine arts by realizing it by the heart and receiving many benefits from rituals by worshipping the deity and learning many benefits from the songs of ancient Tamil literature has been studied.

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