It's quite an experience joining a queue that leads into the smoky inner chamber expect to be ushered through so quickly that you'll barely grab a glimpse of the sacred image. The holy men recite a blessing and place a red splotch, or bindi, on the foreheads of all who give offerings. Every day, white-robed Brahmans accept offerings from those who revere the goddess, including many Thai Buddhists. The central shrine holds a small image of Maha Mariamman, the Hindu mother goddess associated with fertility-especially in the form of rain-and curing disease. It will remind some travellers of a temple with the same name down in Singapore. Unlike the Thai-style representations of these icons which are commonly found at Thai Buddhist temples, the style of imagery here comes straight from India. The temple's outer towers and walls display an elaborate intertwining of deities including Brahma, Indra and Vishnu. Indian music often pumps from footpath vendors as Indian shopkeepers sell sweets and statuettes of Hindu gods. Known to many Thais as Wat Khaek ( khaek being a Thai catch-all word for people of South Asian descent), the temple anchors a part of the Silom area that can be thought of as the city's second Little India, distinct from the predominantly Sikh community at Pahurat. Kannanore.Īdhi Mariamman also appears as Naga Kanni gracing her devotees.Built in the 1860s by immigrants from Tamil Nadu in Southern India, Sri Maha Marriaman is an important Hindu temple that grabs the eyes of anyone walking down Silom Road. The sanctum sanctorum faces south towards S. Though Shakthi had Her temple in Kannanore, she was known as Samayapuram Mariamman with an importance to Her place of origin.ĭevotees visiting Samayapuram to worship Samayapuram Mariamman also visit the Adhi Mariamman temple.Īdhi Mariamman graces with four hands. This came to be known as Kannapuram Mariamman temple. Kannanore with a handful of sand brought from the Cauvery. Later, during the rule of the Vijayanagara king, a temple was built in S. The devotees had to leave the Goddess there. A little girl, possessed of the Goddess told the crowd that she desired to be in that place only. Once, when they were doing so, on way back to the temple from the river, they placed the palanquin for a rest under a neem tree but could not lift it again when they tried. They were celebrating Thai Poosam festival (January-February) each year.ĭuring the festival, they use to take the Goddess to Kollidam River before beginning the celebrations. They erected a temple in the open space and began worshipping the Goddess. People understood that a Shakti in the ant-hill had informed the people of Her presence there. He and the people of the place went to the place from where the voice came and found an ant-hill. A shepherd while passing through this place, heard the voice of a girl child saying that she was here. Kannanore in the South is a noteworthy feature.Ībout two thousand years ago, the place was infested with thorny bushes.
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Devotees worship the Goddess on New Moon and Full Moon days and stay in the temple to get their ambitions realized.ĭevotees perform abishek to the Goddess on realizing their boons.Īdhi Mariamman graces the devotees with Her four hands. Those seeking child boon tie a small wooden cradle on the tree. The worship expedites marriage processes. Those awaiting marriages worship Nagakanni and tie the yellow thread submitted to the deity on the Neem tree here. Adhi Mariamman temple is 3 km from here which is the original birth place of Samayapurathal. The deity graces Her devotees in time, hence praised as Samayapuram Mariamman. The deity still exists here too called Adhi Mariamman. The birth place of Samayapuram Mariamman is 3 km from the present Samayapuram. Kannanore which is the birth place of Samayapurathal (Mariamman). Kannanore Mariamman invited to Kollidam-Cauvery River, a ritual of inviting Samayapuram Adhi Mariamman here on the first Sunday of Chithirai month (April-May) is being followed now also where the deity stays for a night and return back.Īdhi Mariamman temple is situated at a distance of 3 km from S. Poochoridhal (showering of flowers) in the month of Thai (January-February), Masi Thiruvizha in February-March, Vijayadasami in September-October are the festivals very devotionally celebrated in the temple.Īs a recalling of an earlier festival of S.
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