A kula devatā as we commonly know, is a deity who is specific to your bloodline.
There are many ways to trace your kula devatā and one easy route would be rooting back to your ancestral village.
Many or perhaps most Malaysian Indians today do not know their actual kula devatā. As migration took place, the upcoming generation of the diaspora lost touch with their kula devatā temple and its identity.
If you made a random survey some decades back, you will notice how many families tend to give bizarre answers regarding their kula devatā. Commonly, they would just blurt out their favourite deity – say Gaṇeśa or Kṛṣṇa.
They do not know what 'kula devatā' actually refers to. Lately, some awareness of kula devatā has been circulating the net. An important and authentic clarification on how a kula devatā and iṣṭa devatā differ has penetrated the awareness of many. This ought to be a good sign but has unfortunately rendered some drawbacks.
In addition, a kula devatā may not necessarily be a guardian deity.
Many families started to conveniently 'adopt' kula devatās. For instance, if their grandparents had been worshiping muniaṇḍi, muniaṇḍi now becomes their new kula devatā in the house.
Now, try another simple survey. Just display the same query today. You will notice how 8 out of 10 families (in a rough guess) would vaguely answer muniaṇḍi or maḍura vīra. And interestingly, these families would not be consanguineous.
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You have to understand that your kula devatā can never have a vague identity, like just muniaṇḍi or vīraṉ. They should at least have a prefix or suffix to it. They should be specific to a temple in India at least. Those who are still keeping in touch with their ancestral village would know this. Your kula devatā would have a unique identity, with a unique history and name.
If 1000 families are going to claim maḍura vīra as their kula devatā, it really doesn't do justice to their ancestral ways.
For instance, you should at least identify a specific form of māriammaṉ – samayapuram māriammaṉ instead of a hanging 'māriammaṉ'.
If you are Malaysian, I would advise you to reconfirm your kula devata by default.
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(1) consequences of forgetting your kula devata
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DeleteWhat is my kula deivam.
ReplyDeleteWhy asking me ?
DeleteDoes a kula deivam need to be fierce, because my Kula Deivam is Thiruchendur Murugan and he looks like a warrior but at the same time a child.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily fierce, but they are physically intense so they may all appear ferocious but not necessarily fierce. 'Intense' would be the right word.
DeleteMy kula deivam is agni veeran but cant find a single photo of him in shops please help
ReplyDeleteGo to your village temple and take a pic of the deity
DeleteI am 5th generation tamil living in singapore so my fathers relatives decided to go to tamilnadu to find our kuladeivam by asking our relatives there and we found out our kuladeivam is agni veeran but i cant get any photos of him ��������
ReplyDeleteof course because most kula-devata-s are well known only to a particular clan.What you can do is to take a photograph of the deity itself and frame it.That is what I do..
DeleteThis is great, i just changed my phone wallpaper to my kula deivam and i came across this website. Thanks a lot from the info, and my kula deivam i got to know through my cousin who tracked it back to a village in tamilnadu, arrantangi. i have the pic of the deity as well. Thanks man.
ReplyDeleteHi, my ancestors from chidambaram, they used to say MEDU MALAYAN மேடு மலையான் is our kula deivam. Can I know what Samy is that and can share the temple address if anybody knows. Thanks.
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