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04/03/22 09:10 AM IST

Agni Kandakarnan Theyyam

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  • Ritual dance Agni Kandakarnan Theyyam performing at the Kaliyattam festival has begun in Kannur, Kerala.

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  • Theyyam is a popular thousand-year-old ritual form of dance worship in Kerala and Karnataka, India.
  • The people of these districts consider Theyyam itself as a channel to a god and they thus seek blessings from Theyyam.
  • There are about 456 types of Theyyam.
  • Theyyam is performed by males, except the Devakoothu theyyam; the Devakoothu is the only Theyyam ritual performed by women.
  • It is performed only in the Thekkumbad Kulom temple.

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