Monday, May 29, 2017

They Shoot Horses Don't They.



This horse who gives rides to kids is perplexed he finds Man very complex Man a product of misplaced Sex.

Had his father drunkenly not forced himself on his mother a case of sexual excess he was accidentally born a pain in the neck a total wreck

Once in his hey days he turned women on he looked like Gregory Peck.. But now sadly he is on a drunken drug addicted trek. Oedipus Rex

Juxtapoz

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An Ode To Buffalo Meat



My wife says I have gone crazy shooting buffalo meat.
She says why don't you shoot fish mutton or whatever the government  wants us to eat

Meat that will one day become our national geet  soon we will be eating soybeans  and wheat. Our life depends on what you Tweet

Man  Ki  Bat Man  ka Meet

She said if Twitter was a highschool the same class with Trolls 15 times you will repeat Jack  Dorsey  from register  your name will delete

Biz Stone a generous man might just give you reprieve absent without leave.

Luckily you won't be tied to a jeep because shawls you do not weave

Pelting stones of Retweets

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Reaching Out to Yahoo Customer Care,,




God save you from the Robots at @Flickr @FlickrHelp @marissamayer @verizon @timarmstrongaol @boazimages





reaching out to Yahoo customer care
a pain of a New Zealander I share
read her blog ..but does Flickr care
run by robots who scare ..running
around in circles everywhere oh
Courtney dumb bimbo no flair
sitting on an armchair ,,driving you
crazy I swear my friend Boaz locked
out of Flickr due to one of their outage
why cant you make it simple easier
if you are locked out at Flickr even
Cybernetic God wont answer your prayer
you are forever ensnared ...

gasping for goddamn air ..

Friday, May 26, 2017

3 Years of Progress and Development Up Against A Wall





Mubarak ho  apko  tarrakki  ke 3 sal  #gaurakshak ne udhed  di musalmanon  ki khal ap  rahe  khamosh banke  deewar.. Waqt  ke Sarkar.

Swach Bharat Shooting Garbage As Fine Art Bandra Bazar Road

She said Hold Your Nose




the tragedy of being
firoze god almighty
has shut all doors
a tennis malang of
bandra once a well paid
well laid corporate whore
in a high end fashion store
a single occupation profession
others he had no money to
explore ..garbage as fine art
wont ever seem like an eye sore
humility is lifes essence and core
what god has given is sufficient
why ask for more and implore
said dear friend Meld hold your nose
a visual reawakened the soul of my
poetry ..the mind has so many words
in this computer store ..a lion is a lion
because of its roar ..sometimes a boat
sails on water it needs no oars ,,
photography for me has now become
a domestic chore ..shooting pictures
evolve as stories through revolving doors

this is my 10467 poem at @flickr









@flickr

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Sweet Abigail


I fell in love with a girl Abigail
She had fetish for wearing the veil
Once I got her drunk my sorry tale
Abigail turned out to be male

I almost had a heart fail.
When I saw a beard beneath her veil

Last I heard sweet Abigail is in jail
For card cloning Abigail's real name was Gayle.. Her lovers whom she duped still on her trail.


Cut the Bullshit #Flickr ..You will never give us a photo editor




Verizon will be calling the shots
a murky plot after disappearance
of Aviary gets thicker and thicker
i am happy that i dont speak with
a forked tongue i am certainly
not an asslicker ..nor nose picker


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Endangered Specie In Bandra Jesus Hunted By The BMC Mumbai




Jesus was spending his last days at Bandra  peaceful place  BMC wanted to demolish his crosses remove every trace. Hail Mary Full of Grace .

Sonu Nigam Quitting Twitter Is Media National News





Media has no original stories to tell  hit hard by Sonu  Nigam  quitting Twitter they yell.. Celebrity news sells.. Others can go to hell.

Showing Hindu Muslim divide is what they know well  licking the ass of politicians can  Media ever Rebel big bucks holds them in a vicious  spell.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

If you can rehabilitate the Victoria operators why not the beef butchers



Victoriaoperators 

Good Bye Yahoo The End Is Near




Good bye Ms Marissa Mayer
you tried hard but a sinking ship
to the shores you could not steer
we at Flickr will miss you dear ..
Goodbye Flickr Help wish you
a speedy recovery lots of cheer
We are now under a new master
Verizon Tim Armstrong ,,our new
King Lear ..goodbye to all those
who at Yahoo far and near ..
Goodbye to a Bad Rubbish
Yahoo Copyright ,,useless
wretched pack of lawyer
wannabes who watched impotently
as our pictures got stolen here ..

Welcome Verizon please be kind
considerate human to us Flickr
photographers cream of cream
every photostream..our voices
please do hear ..

Good Bye Yahoo with your
myopic glasses you never read
the writing on the wall that said
in Florescent words of Imagery

The End Is Near ..
You got the big bucks
on our blood sweat and tears .


My parting gift of a pom to  @marissamayer

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I joined @Flickr in 2007 as a Pro member
Images ,,426,163 Photos private public
62,230,157views

Views Till Now Today On My Flickr Photostream 97442




I sometimes wonder what is there to see on my timeline here at Flickr as my most viewed set Hijras of India over 22000 images is disabled from public view including the set on Crossdressers .

I have used my photography as an instrument of knowledge to show you an India that hardly anyone shoots .I shoot simplicity humility and hospitality of India ,

As a photographer I am a Shia Sufi Hindu Christian but not an atheist ,..I would love to go to Lumbini shoot Buddhism but I dont have the resources ,,

My next trip is to Khamakhya hopefully ..

I have not upgraded my camera since 2011 ,,

However I love to shoot videos ,,stills dont turn me on as videos do..videos take you into the heart soul of what you are shooting it gives you euphoria sense of drama exhilaration lol some cheap thrills too.. and You Tube is a great search engine though I am a Flickr user ,,viewers hardly come here ,,so I use You Tube as my archive of moving images ,

I hate the fucked up You Tube editor I use Windows Movie Maker ..my You Tube is inching towards 7 million mark....I  have about 6300 subscribers .

I thank you all in a way I learnt my craft here at Flickr from all of you each one of you have contributed to my latent creativity ,,once in a while it does bubble up...

I am not as talented as most of you are but my dad always said ..dont ever get tired of learning you will always be a drop in the ocean.

This ocean called Flickr is vast and unfathomable .


The entire Madraswadi Worli residents are watching my Flickr stream ..I shot their Mother Goddess Marriammen and her feast 21 June 2017

நன்றி
Naṉṟi
Thank you


Madraswadi 

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Ajmer Sharif Urus 2006 Hijras at Ajmer Firoze Shakir

A Mother Weeps ..



Than they came for Jesus
At De Monte Street  Bandra
Demolishing his Heritage
Of Peace in the Name of
Progress and Development.

demolishing a harmless cross
using bulldozers bludgeoning
Bandras christian ethos..
only BMC can be so gross .
anti minority is what comes across
on a high horse .unnecessary force
no regrets no apologies no remorse
sab ka sath sab ka vikas ..hollow words
empty words soul of humanity total loss

Ajmer Sharif Urus 2006 Shot on Film 2 Firoze Shakir

Friday, May 19, 2017

What will President Trump Talk on Islam




he will talk about
terrorists bred in
animal farms
suicide bombers
with bombs fixed
in alarms
to appease the
soul of Wahabbi
Islam..he will
stay calm .
relationship with
Saudis he wont
wish to harm
as Yemen bleeds
no healing balm
next President
Trump will be
coming to India
to speak about
Hinduism in
relevance
to Jai Shree
Ram..
hope he talks
about neglected
American war veterans
who fought in Afghanistan
Vietnam..

Ajmer Urus 2005 Shot on Film..

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Lucknow City of My Birth Through The Camera Eye Of Firoze Shakir 1

Lucknow City of My Birth Through The Camera Eye Of Firoze Shakir 1

My Walk Bandra 2 Shot By Firoze Shakir

My Walk Bandra 2 Shot By Firoze Shakir

My Walk Bandra 1 Shot By Firoze Shakir

Tin Lady of Bandra

she is a migrant
from modijis gujrat
a gujrat model
political posturings
as art ,,
she slogs from morning
to evening collecting used oil tins
from provision stores she has no
cart ..but she is strong robust
woman of india with a very big heart
all politicians motor mouths talk of
women emancipation..her dreams they
could not thwart..
one day she told me passionately
when she has made enough money 'her own
 second hand bhangar shop she will start
necessity is the mother  of invention has made her
'street smart ,,,

its only people in high places that gain from sab ka ath sab ka vikas garib raste pe udas ,,

Marriamen Feast 2 Juhu Nehru Nagar Shot By Firoze Shakir Shot on Cano...

Friday, May 5, 2017

In Our Country Progress And Development Begins And Ends With The Cow





dividing the nation between
Hindus Muslims the agony of
living on the planet of the Cows

our soldiers on the borders butchered
bodies mutilated decapitated to our
politicians it does not matter somehow
they are busy issuing Adhar Card for our
Cows ..passion s to kill arouse ..
with their army of Gau Rakshaks blood
thirsty extortionists state sponsored
hooligans gifted endowed .

Pehlu Khan
Akhlaque
forgotten
lynched
for he sake
of the Cow

Our Supreme Leader sanctimoniously silent
he has taken a vow render to God what belongs
to God render surrender the Muslim man on
the Altar of the Holy Cow its only Triple Talaq
I am against it too that he raises his arched
eyebrows ..

Beware if they find beef in your refrigerator
you are not even safe in your own house

The New Public Toilet At Bandra Bandstand Opp Salman Khans House





A lady socialite used new toilet door she closed tired she dozed the door would not open she gave it blows till she froze .bleeding nose.
Oh Firoze!
i am happy
you did not say
how gross
politicians take credit
 for building
toilets opposite
salman khans house
he should oppose

but than his fans
holding on to their bladder
had to rush to the seafront
excitement overflows
man is nothing but a
watering hose
even toilet poetry can be better
than toilet prose ..

a beautiful spot for being human
the BMC chose ..breaking Christians
crosses is all they know ,,, ergo

About Goddess Marriammen Goddess Of Fertility Juhu Nehru Nagar



Māri (Tamil: மாரி), also known as Mariamman (Tamil: மாரியம்மன்) and Mariaai (Marathi: मरी आई), both meaning "Mother Mari", spelt also Maariamma (Tamil: மாரியம்மா), or simply Amman or Aatha (Tamil: அம்மன், "mother") is the South Indian Hindu goddess of rain. She is the main South Indian mother goddess, predominant in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Māri is closely associated with the Hindu goddesses Parvati[1]and Durga[2] as well as with her North Indian counterpart Shitaladevi. Goddess Mariamman and Goddess Kali are closely associated with each other.

Festivities for her happen during the late summer, early autumn season of "Aadi". Throughout the Tamil Nadu and deccan region, grand festival known as "Aadi Thiruvizha" are taken for Maariamman. Her worship mainly focuses on bringing rains and curing diseases like cholera, smallpox, and chicken pox.

She is worshipped in accordance to the local agamas as "Pidari" or the "Grama Devata" usually by non-Brahmin priests or in some cases of big temples like Samayapuram Maariamman temple, also by Brahmin priests. According to shaktha agamas, she is depicted in sitting posture and might be flanked some times by Ganesha and Subramaniya or Ganesha and Naaga on her sides.[citation needed] She is usually taken in procession in a decorated chariot.

Origin[edit]

Mariyamman in Tirisool, 10th century, chola peroid,Tamil Nadu,India.

Erode Mariamman Ther Thiruvilla
Mariamman is an ancient goddess, whose worship probably originated from pre-Vedic[citation needed] mother goddess cult of Dravidian people before the arrival of the Aryans[citation needed] with their Brahmanic religion[citation needed] .This is well attested by the unemployment of Brahmins in officiating the worshipping rituals of the goddess and by the non-Vedic worshipping method that was embraced by her devotees. In Tamil, the word 'Maari' would mean rain and 'amman' would literally mean mother but here "mother nature.". 'Maari' can also mean female form of 'Indra' who is also called 'Maara'. Since the 'Indra' worship was prevalent among the Sangam Tamil people, 'Maari' as a female form of 'Maara' or 'Indra' is worshipped for bestowing rainfall. 'Indrani' is one of the saptha kannikas and the 7 kannikas find innumerable references in Tamil Sangam literature as well as temple worship. She was believed and worshipped by the ancient Dravidian people to bring rain and hence prosperity to them as their vegetation was mainly dependent upon rain. The goddess was not a local deity, connected to a specific location but worshiped throughout the Dravidian nation.

Worship[edit]
The worshiping methods are non-vedic and often accompanied by various kinds of folk dancing.[3] Offerings such as Pongal and Koozh that are cooked using earthen pots are also made during the festive season. Rituals such as fire walking and mouth or nose piercing are also practised.

At the temple of Samayapuram, which lies six miles to the north of Tirucirapalli, the Hindu system of worship is still seen today for the worship of Mariyamman. worship for Mariyamman is a ten-day festival, organized by temple authorities during the second week in April. Some continue to use an old village customs of worship by offering chickens and goats to the deity, but the animals are no longer sacrificed but sold after being offered. But the main worshipping of the goddess occurs on the road a mile or two from the temple. A hurried walk and dance carries hundreds of thousands of worshippers along the road to the temple. Countless people in the crowd have fasted, shaved their heads, and wear bright yellow clothes, which are sacred to the goddess. Many women and children carry a pot on their heads decorated with the goddess’s favourite leaves of the margosa tree. Young men and women carry similar pots but are followed by drummers and dance more wildly. Larger men and women carry pots of charcoal fire. Some put themselves through a special tribulation of having one of the sacred weapons, dagger, trident, or a spear, inserted through their cheeks or tongues.[4] Through this worship each individual realizes themselves and others through samsara and moksha. In this self realization he or she is bonded with the goddess, which is the underlining reason of the worship.

Myths[edit]
One story about the origin of Maariamman is she was the wife of Thiruvalluvar, the Tamil poet, who was an outcast.[citation needed] She caught smallpox and begged from house to house for food, fanning herself with leaves of the neem or margosa tree to keep the flies off her sores. She recovered and people worshipped her as the goddess of smallpox. To keep smallpox away, neem leaves are hung above the main entryways of South Indian homes. This temple houses both Thiruvalluvar and his wife Vaasuki Ammaiyar.[citation needed]. This is in sharp contrast to the life of Thiruvalluvar where in he advocated love for all. Hence this story cannot be taken to be credible.

The Tamil word Muthu means pearl and hence in the ancient usage of the language 'Muthu Maari' was a celebrating, poetic way of telling the rain falls in droplets which were related to pearls given by the nature god for property. Maariamman was also called 'Muthu Maariamman' which meant the goddess who gives prosperous rain. This was wrongly connected to the pearl-like small form of the boils that occur during chickenpox.[citation needed]

Another story involves the beautiful virtuous Nagavali, wife of Piruhu[citation needed] , one of the nine Rishis. One day the Rishi was away and the Trimurti came to see if her famed beauty and virtue was true. Nagavali did not know them and, resenting their intrusion, turned them into little children. The gods were offended and cursed her, so her beauty faded and her face became marked like smallpox. The Rishi returned, found her disfigured, and drove her away, declaring she would be born a demon in the next world and cause the spread of a disease which would make people like her. She was called Mari, meaning 'changed.' Both stories are reported by Whitehead[citation needed] and he remarks that in Mysore he was told that Mari meant sakti, power[citation needed] .

Local goddesses such as Mariamman who were believed to protect villages and their lands and represent the different castes of their worshippers have always been an important part of the religious landscape of South India. However, we can note periods of special significance. The eclecticism of the Vijayanagar period (1336–1565) encouraged folk religion, which became more important and influenced the more literate forms of religion. In the last century and a half there has been a rebirth of Tamil self-consciousness (see Devotion to Murukan). In the middle of the present century deities such as Mariamman have become linked to the "great tradition" as the strata of society which worship the goddess has become integrated into the larger social order.

Iconography[edit]
Māri is usually pictured as a beautiful young woman with a red-hued face, wearing a red dress. Sometimes she is portrayed with many arms—representing her many powers—but in most representations she has only two or four.

Māri is generally portrayed in the sitting or standing position, often holding a trident (trisula) in one hand and a bowl (kapala) in the other. One of her hands may display a mudra, usually the abhaya mudra, to ward off fear. She may be represented with two demeanours—one displaying her pleasant nature, and the other her terrifying aspect, with fangs and a wild mane of hair.

Goddess of medicine[edit]

The Nanalthidal MMāri (Tamil: மாரி), also known as Mariamman (Tamil: மாரியம்மன்) and Mariaai (Marathi: मरी आई), both meaning "Mother Mari", spelt also Maariamma (Tamil: மாரியம்மா), or simply Amman or Aatha (Tamil: அம்மன், "mother") is the South Indian Hindu goddess of rain. She is the main South Indian mother goddess, predominant in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Māri is closely associated with the Hindu goddesses Parvati[1]and Durga[2] as well as with her North Indian counterpart Shitaladevi. Goddess Mariamman and Goddess Kali are closely associated with each other.

Festivities for her happen during the late summer, early autumn season of "Aadi". Throughout the Tamil Nadu and deccan region, grand festival known as "Aadi Thiruvizha" are taken for Maariamman. Her worship mainly focuses on bringing rains and curing diseases like cholera, smallpox, and chicken pox.

She is worshipped in accordance to the local agamas as "Pidari" or the "Grama Devata" usually by non-Brahmin priests or in some cases of big temples like Samayapuram Maariamman temple, also by Brahmin priests. According to shaktha agamas, she is depicted in sitting posture and might be flanked some times by Ganesha and Subramaniya or Ganesha and Naaga on her sides.[citation needed] She is usually taken in procession in a decorated chariot.

Origin[edit]

Mariyamman in Tirisool, 10th century, chola peroid,Tamil Nadu,India.

Erode Mariamman Ther Thiruvilla
Mariamman is an ancient goddess, whose worship probably originated from pre-Vedic[citation needed] mother goddess cult of Dravidian people before the arrival of the Aryans[citation needed] with their Brahmanic religion[citation needed] .This is well attested by the unemployment of Brahmins in officiating the worshipping rituals of the goddess and by the non-Vedic worshipping method that was embraced by her devotees. In Tamil, the word 'Maari' would mean rain and 'amman' would literally mean mother but here "mother nature.". 'Maari' can also mean female form of 'Indra' who is also called 'Maara'. Since the 'Indra' worship was prevalent among the Sangam Tamil people, 'Maari' as a female form of 'Maara' or 'Indra' is worshipped for bestowing rainfall. 'Indrani' is one of the saptha kannikas and the 7 kannikas find innumerable references in Tamil Sangam literature as well as temple worship. She was believed and worshipped by the ancient Dravidian people to bring rain and hence prosperity to them as their vegetation was mainly dependent upon rain. The goddess was not a local deity, connected to a specific location but worshiped throughout the Dravidian nation.

Worship[edit]
The worshiping methods are non-vedic and often accompanied by various kinds of folk dancing.[3] Offerings such as Pongal and Koozh that are cooked using earthen pots are also made during the festive season. Rituals such as fire walking and mouth or nose piercing are also practised.

At the temple of Samayapuram, which lies six miles to the north of Tirucirapalli, the Hindu system of worship is still seen today for the worship of Mariyamman. worship for Mariyamman is a ten-day festival, organized by temple authorities during the second week in April. Some continue to use an old village customs of worship by offering chickens and goats to the deity, but the animals are no longer sacrificed but sold after being offered. But the main worshipping of the goddess occurs on the road a mile or two from the temple. A hurried walk and dance carries hundreds of thousands of worshippers along the road to the temple. Countless people in the crowd have fasted, shaved their heads, and wear bright yellow clothes, which are sacred to the goddess. Many women and children carry a pot on their heads decorated with the goddess’s favourite leaves of the margosa tree. Young men and women carry similar pots but are followed by drummers and dance more wildly. Larger men and women carry pots of charcoal fire. Some put themselves through a special tribulation of having one of the sacred weapons, dagger, trident, or a spear, inserted through their cheeks or tongues.[4] Through this worship each individual realizes themselves and others through samsara and moksha. In this self realization he or she is bonded with the goddess, which is the underlining reason of the worship.

Myths[edit]
One story about the origin of Maariamman is she was the wife of Thiruvalluvar, the Tamil poet, who was an outcast.[citation needed] She caught smallpox and begged from house to house for food, fanning herself with leaves of the neem or margosa tree to keep the flies off her sores. She recovered and people worshipped her as the goddess of smallpox. To keep smallpox away, neem leaves are hung above the main entryways of South Indian homes. This temple houses both Thiruvalluvar and his wife Vaasuki Ammaiyar.[citation needed]. This is in sharp contrast to the life of Thiruvalluvar where in he advocated love for all. Hence this story cannot be taken to be credible.

The Tamil word Muthu means pearl and hence in the ancient usage of the language 'Muthu Maari' was a celebrating, poetic way of telling the rain falls in droplets which were related to pearls given by the nature god for property. Maariamman was also called 'Muthu Maariamman' which meant the goddess who gives prosperous rain. This was wrongly connected to the pearl-like small form of the boils that occur during chickenpox.[citation needed]

Another story involves the beautiful virtuous Nagavali, wife of Piruhu[citation needed] , one of the nine Rishis. One day the Rishi was away and the Trimurti came to see if her famed beauty and virtue was true. Nagavali did not know them and, resenting their intrusion, turned them into little children. The gods were offended and cursed her, so her beauty faded and her face became marked like smallpox. The Rishi returned, found her disfigured, and drove her away, declaring she would be born a demon in the next world and cause the spread of a disease which would make people like her. She was called Mari, meaning 'changed.' Both stories are reported by Whitehead[citation needed] and he remarks that in Mysore he was told that Mari meant sakti, power[citation needed] .

Local goddesses such as Mariamman who were believed to protect villages and their lands and represent the different castes of their worshippers have always been an important part of the religious landscape of South India. However, we can note periods of special significance. The eclecticism of the Vijayanagar period (1336–1565) encouraged folk religion, which became more important and influenced the more literate forms of religion. In the last century and a half there has been a rebirth of Tamil self-consciousness (see Devotion to Murukan). In the middle of the present century deities such as Mariamman have become linked to the "great tradition" as the strata of society which worship the goddess has become integrated into the larger social order.

Iconography[edit]
Māri is usually pictured as a beautiful young woman with a red-hued face, wearing a red dress. Sometimes she is portrayed with many arms—representing her many powers—but in most representations she has only two or four.

Māri is generally portrayed in the sitting or standing position, often holding a trident (trisula) in one hand and a bowl (kapala) in the other. One of her hands may display a mudra, usually the abhaya mudra, to ward off fear. She may be represented ariamman,Kattucherry near Porayar,Tamil Nadu
Mariamman cures all so-called "heat-based" diseases like pox and rashes. During the summer months in South India (March to June), people walk miles carrying pots of water mixed with turmeric and neem leaves to ward off illnesses like the measles and chicken pox.[why?] In this way, goddess Māri is very similar to North Indian goddess Shitaladevi.

Fertility goddess[edit]
Devotees also pray to Mariamman for familial welfare such as fertility, healthy progeny or a good spouse. The most favoured offering is "pongal", a mix of rice and green gram, cooked mostly in the temple complex, or shrine itself, in terracotta pots using firewood.

Some festivals in honour of goddess Māri involve processions carrying lights. In the night, the devotees carry oil lamps in procession.[why?] Mariamman is the family deity for many families in Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu.It is usually a family custom to initially worship the family deity for any family occasion such as wedding. Many families even have a custom of inviting the family deity first for all occasion in the family.The family deity(Kula-theivam)worship is considered more important in any Hindu festival. The family deity worship runs many generation and it also gives a clue to the origin of family,because the family deities are usually located within the vicinity of the village where the family belongs.

Temples[edit]

Mariamman temple in a village in Tamil Nadu

Main shrine to Mariamman in the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Most temples to Mariamman are simple village shrines, where non-Brahmins act as lay-priests using non-agamic rituals. In many rural shrines, the goddess is represented by a granite stone with a sharp tip, like a spear head. This stone is often adorned with garlands made of limes and with red flowers. These shrines often have an anthill that could be the resting place of a cobra. Milk and eggs are offered to propitiate the snake.

Some temples have also attained enough popularity that Brahmins officiate at them. For example, the Samayapuram temple near the shore of river Cauvery in the northern outskirts of Trichy, maintains a rich agamic tradition and all rituals are performed by Gurukkal of Brahmins.

Punainallur, near Thanjavur (Tanjore), is the location of another famous Māri temple. Legend says that Mariamman appeared to the King Venkoji Maharaja Chatrapati (1676–1688) of Tanjore in his dreams and told him she was in a forest of Punna trees three miles distant from Tanjore. The King rushed to the spot and recovered an idol from the jungle. Under the king's orders a temple was constructed, the idol installed and the place was called Punnainallur. Hence the deity of this temple is known as Punnainallur Mariamman. Mud replicas of different parts of the human body are placed in the temple as offerings by devotees pleading for cure. It is said that the daughter of Tulaja Raja (1729–35) of Tanjore, who lost her eyesight due to illness, regained it after worshipping at this temple. Shri Sadasiva Brahmendra is said to have made the Moola Murthy of Goddess Maariamman from the mud from the ant hill where snakes had resided.

Erode Mariamman temple festival is grand one in Tamil Nadu. Three mariamman goddess named small, mid and big mariamman in three corners of city combines to a festival at every April month of season. It has ther thiruvilla and all devotions to God which ends in Cauvery river to stack away the kambam(Mariamman's husband) into the flowing river water.

Karur Mariamman temple festival which falls in the end of may month every year is also a well noticed grand festival in TamiNadu.

Other important temples of Mariamman in Tamil Nadu are in the towns of Veerapandi, Theni, Anbil (near Trichy), Narthamalai, Thiruverkadu, Salem, Virudhunagar and Sivakasi, Vellore. In Chennai (Madras), a famous Mariamman temple is the Putthu Mariamman—the Putthu (ant hill) is across the road from the temple and is located on the Velachery Main Road.

Singer Harini rendered in 2012 a song on Samayapuram Mariamman deity which became part of the album OM NAVA SAKTHI JAYA JAYA SAKTHI. The song narrates the power of Sakthi as Samayapuram Amman which has the Peruvalai River as Punya Theertham as believed by people in that area.[5]

Another famous Mariamman temple is situated in the state of Karnataka, in the town of Kaup, seven kilometres from the famous temple town of Udipi.


Sri Mariamman temple in Medan, Indonesia
Marubai temple matunga
Mariamman Koil, Pilakool
Mariamman Temple, Ho Chi Minh City
Mariamman Temple, Bangkok
Mariamman Temple, Pretoria
Punnainallur Mariamman
Samayapuram Mariamman Temple
Sri Ramamirthamman Temple, Erumaipadukai
Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur
Sri Mariamman Temple, Medan
Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Penang
Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore
Sri Muthumariamman Temple, Negombo
Mariamman Temple, Pretoria
Sri Ramamirthamman Temple[edit]
Sri Ramamirthamman Temple is a famous temple on the banks of the River Vennar near Needamangalam; the beautiful village is called Erumaipadukai. Shri Maan S.Ramachandran pillai is the founder of Ramamirthamman Temple. This amman kovil thiruvilla was very famous; many people celebrate this amman kovil year festival.

It is believed by the devotees that the Goddess has enormous powers over curing illnesses[1] and hence, it is a ritual to buy small metallic replicas, made with silver or steel, of various body parts that need to be cured, and these are deposited in the donation box.[citation needed] Devotees also offer mavilakku (Tamil: மாவிளக்கு), a sweet dish made of jaggery, rice flour and ghee. [2] Offerings of raw salt is also made to the Goddess by the rural devotees. The temple attracts thousands of devotees on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays, the holy days for Ramamirthamman.

Outside India[edit]
There are many Mariamman temples outside of India, in Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Fiji, Guyana, Vietnam, Germany[6] and South Africa, the product of efforts of the Tamil diaspora. Some notable temples include the Sri Mariamman temple in Singapore, Sri Mariamman temple in Bangkok, a Mariamman temple in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as one in Medan, Sri Mariamman Temple Karachi Pakistan, Indonesia.[citation needed]

Hindu tradition[edit]
In Hindu tradition, Mariamman is the sister of Lord Vishnu (Sriranganathar) and called Mahamaya.[citation needed]

The Samayapuram Mariamman is worshipped on the first day of the Tamil month of Vaikasi by the Iyengar/Srivaishnava Brahmins of Srirangam. They claim that she is the sister of Lord Renganath (a form of Vishnu) of Srirangam.[citation needed] This is the second most prominent temple in Tamil Nadu, following Palani, on the basis of income.[citation needed]

Another version of the traditions suggests she is the mother of Parasurama, Renukadevi who is appeased for rains. She is also known as Sri Chowdeshwari Devi in most of the parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. In Mysore region she is worshipped as both Chowdeshwari Devi and as well as Mariamman. There are many instances where Mariamman has appeared to people in form an old woman wearing red sari with green bangles and three mangalsutras.[clarification needed] She is also regarded as the Gramdevata[clarification needed] of certain villages, thus reducing the incidence of contagious disease in these villages. Another version depicts her as Pattalamma, goddesses of truthfulness and punctuality. She is said to punish any villager failing to practice these virtues.[citation needed]

In reference to Sanskrit stotras, it is suggested Mariamman is not sister of Lord Visnu rather feminine aspect of Lord.[citation needed] The Lord incarnates in this form during Kali yuga, when knowledge is almost void or ignorance at peak. Even few refer or map to other female goddess like Renuka devi, none of them have been proved or validated. The Mariamman represents core aspects of Lord in form of curative aspect to signify direction and awakening of knowledge. She is referred as MahaLakshmi, Mahasaraswati and MahaKali. Varamahalakshi is dedicated to Mariamman. It also represents finite aspect of infinite qualities.

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