Worship of Pavai in Sangam Literature

Abstract

Paavai worship is one of the invisible ancient forms of worship recorded in Sangam literary works. The word paavai appears in 53 places in Sangam literature.  paavai deity. Playing object, Painting, Sculpture, Plant, Eye, Woman, Koothu are handled in many objects. Here the word paavai is taken for study only in the sense of deity. This paavai worship can be classified into two as Kollimalai paavai worship and water god puppet worship. The paavai that freezes in the Kolli Hills is very devastating. Received divinity. Natural disasters like wind, rain, thunder, lightning, do not spoil the beauty of this mountain. That is why the Kollimalai paavai is called the Maya natural paavai. The deity is frozen in caves, ditches and rocks. Kollimalai paavai is the guardian deity who threatens and guards Condor in the Kolli Hills. Sangam poets have compared it to a Kollimalai paavai as a testament to the beauty of women. The next paavai worship is the water worship. Worship of the water god paavai took place in the early morning of the month of Tai, in the hope that a good husband would be obtained by worshiping the water god paavai, good rain, and the country would prosper.