Cult Beliefs in Ancient Literature

Abstract

Worship began when human beings started to believe that there was a power that is higher than themselves and began to bow before that power. Humans began to think what is the reason for the sufferings that happen to mankind during the time when he lived in forests, mountains, with animals and nature? The calamities caused by nature and the suffering and loss due to animals are immense. To protect themselves from these sufferings and losses, they worshiped the nature and other things as their deities. They believed that those natural calamities had more fighting power than them. When the people who lived as ethnic groups eventually became families, the way they worshiped the deity changed and they were transformed into rituals. It is impossible to say exactly when these rituals appeared. Over time people used to pray to the deity to make their lives successful and to be successful in their endeavours. For that, they offered some kind of sacrifices to the goddess. Beliefs and worships of gods that were prevalent among the ancient Tamils are explained on the basis of Sangam literature.