The Paniyas, an Ex-slave Tribe of South IndiaStudy on the social life of the Paniya tribe in Wayanad, Kerala. |
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... gods in dreams : An informant who was a ritualist , a ; t't ' a : l ' i , told me that he saw god / gods in his dreams as ' a big man with a red turban ' . The policemen in Kerala some decades ago had tall red caps and it is likely that ...
... gods in dreams : An informant who was a ritualist , a ; t't ' a : l ' i , told me that he saw god / gods in his dreams as ' a big man with a red turban ' . The policemen in Kerala some decades ago had tall red caps and it is likely that ...
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... gods in another context of the song . Taking this bit of evidence also into consideration , we might infer that the Paniya hymn composer thought it expedient to include a powerful god of Bombay also in his little cyclopaedia of gods ...
... gods in another context of the song . Taking this bit of evidence also into consideration , we might infer that the Paniya hymn composer thought it expedient to include a powerful god of Bombay also in his little cyclopaedia of gods ...
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... god and a Baby - elephant - god . On the day following vishu , these gods- are worshipped in the Manantoddy region . A figure of a tiger is made in rice and a lighted wick is placed near it . Likewise , a crude figure of an elephant is ...
... god and a Baby - elephant - god . On the day following vishu , these gods- are worshipped in the Manantoddy region . A figure of a tiger is made in rice and a lighted wick is placed near it . Likewise , a crude figure of an elephant is ...
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