Poomaruthan Theyyam is usually performed in “Poomala Bhagavathi Temples”. Actually there is no theyyam performance for Poomala Bhagavathi, though she is the heroine in the myth, instead Poomaruthan Theyyam is performing in all the Poomala Bhagavathi Temples. People of North Malabar worship her and celebrate a festival called “Pooram Mahotsavam”. Usually Pooram festival celebrates for seven days but in certain areas it extends up to nine days. ‘Pooramkuli’ (holy dip in the water) and Poorakkali (a marital art dance of men) are the two common programs associated with Pooram Festival. As a tradition people do certain types of rituals in their home by making the model of ‘Kaman’. Usually it is made up of wet cow dung and studded with particular kind of flower all over the body of the moulded idol and lot of flowers are spreading around the idol as a flower carpet. The number of ‘Kaman’ varies from day to day. On the last day (Pooram day) during the evening after having certain ceremonial rituals all these idols were removed from the courtyard and dump it away. “Pooram Kuli” in Madayi Kavu (Near Payangadi) is famous for North Malabaris. In Kasaragod district during ‘Pooram’ days ‘Poorakkali’ (a martial group dance of gents) is popular.
The myth behind the deity is that, there lived a King ‘Arya’ who had a pretty daughter (Poomala). She was keen in adventurous journeys. One day she approached the king and expressed her interest in a river journey by using a wooden trough. But the king neither granted the permission nor spare the wooden trough to her. Deeply desperate she approached certain demon lords and cried one of their help to fulfill her wish. So one of them agreed to help her and he himself disguised as a wind and hid inside a flower (flower means poovu and wind means maruthan) . During the occasion of Pooram festival the girl was observing fasting and went for collecting the flower. It was described that the demon who hid inside the flower was one of the incarnation of ‘Lord Shiva’. As soon as she plucked the flower she became fainted and fell down . The king became worried and brought an astrologer and after the astrological calculations they found that the Godess ‘Poomala Bhagavathi” requires a wooden trough for a long journey. Finally King agreed and arranged it. So “Poomala” along with “Poomaruthan’ started to cross number of rivers and reached “Ezhimala” (near Payyanur). From there they went to ‘Maniyara’, Thalenari, Ramavilyam’ and finally settled in ‘Ramanthali Kuruvanthatta Ara’. These locations have important shrines for the Poomaruthan Theyyam and most of the temples conduct the theyyam performance yearly.
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