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Kuttichathan Theyyam also known as Sasthappan Theyyam is a theyyam that is performed in northern parts of Kerala state in India.
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English: When lord Shiva and Parvati disguised themselves as Valluvan and Valluvathi, they had two children named Karuval and Kuttichathan.They gave Kuttichathan, who was born with a black body and a flower on the forehead and three eyes, to a childless Namboodiri from Kalakatt illam.He send the child to a Guru for schooling. Kuttichathan, who was not ready to obey the Guru, began to adopt practices contrary to Brahmanical customs.Due to his extraordinary intelligence, the Guru could not answer many of the child's questions.Guru rebuked and beat Kuttichathan who did not obey him. As a revenge Chathan killed Guru and left the place.
Knowing this, Namboothiri told his wife Atholamma not to feed the starving child. When he was hungry and asked for milk, she rejected and in anger the boy killed a bull and drank his blood.In this, angry Namboothiri hacked Kuttichathan to death. But he reborn.Namboothiri brought in a large number of Brahmins and killed Kuttichathan and cut his body into 390 pieces and burned in 21 Homakundams (a type of holy kiln).There were many Kuttichathans born from that klins and they set fire to Nampoothiri's house and the nearby Brahmin houses.They decided to worship the persecuted Kuttichathan as Theyyam. This is the myth behind Kuttichathan theyyam.
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