The Liminality in Silapathikaram

Abstract

‘The spirit of ancient culture is boon to the present life’. The world consists of the five great powers (pancha boothangal) land, air, fire, water and universe. The different religious worshipping present in Hindu culture. Production, protection, destroying, blessings predict through liminality. The essay reveals the views of liminality present in silapathikaram how related with present people’s principles. Humans who workshipped the nature, they workshipped the deities in the two forms, the minor deity and the super deity. To proclaim the God’s blessing, they designed a god’s statue, Idols and they celebrated a function to worship a god. In order to cover up the crimes committed by those who lived and died with them, the peace workship became as the deity worship. By praying soul, they hopped that the souls liminality will save and protect the people, so that they started workship a dead soul. All forums showed in silapathikaram had been seen as liminality. They had a fear and opinion that the God will punish the people , If anybody did a mistake. Many God’s has been as liminality in silapathikaram, kannaghi has been shown as a Pathini God. She was not a goddess for a particular part of people , she is defined as a goddess for all Tamil people. After Thousands of years , apart from language, race, country till now kannaghi is believed as a goddess, because in silapthikaram, the liminality is released through kannaghi. This is the reason which makes kannaghi as a goddess.