However, now, when a person like Suki Sivam asserts a binary for Murugan and alleges appropriation, then that can create quite a lot of confusion and may supply ‘respectability’ to the crank theories of Seeman. For example, when Seeman claims that he has DNA relations closer to Murugan than Brahmins in Tamil Nandu, every Tamil Hindu child knows that Murugan, being the light of Brahman, has neither birth nor death. Seeman or Simon of Naam Tamizhar Katchi is in the forefront of this bizarre ideological propagation, while also alleging that Murugan worship is only 'ancestral’ worship appropriated by a ‘Brahminical/Aryan’ religion.įortunately in Tamil Nadu, the spiritual traditions which have centered around Murugan are so strong and culturally affluent that most Tamils can easily see the absurdity of these claims for themselves. Thus again, a binary is created where Tamil worship is correlated with a kind of ‘primitive communism’ and Vedic/Aryan/Brahminical worship is depicted as a kind of ‘primitive racism’, exhibiting ‘hierarchical and apartheid’ tendencies. So the Tamil separatist movement, which too has the backing of the evangelical industry, reduces all Tamil Hindu worship to ‘ancestral’ or ‘primitive’ forms of worship.
All gods and goddesses were to be eliminated. The Dravidian movement constructed a Tamil identity in which all past was considered ‘irrational’ and ‘superstitious’. Though in a way, this is a recycling of old Dravidian racial theory, with respect to the Dravidian movement itself, there is a crucial difference. In Tamil Nadu, after the Church-sponsored Dravidianist movement failed to destroy Hinduism, the new strategy being adopted is to claim that Tamil deities are different from ‘Tamil methods of worship’. For the last few years, however, he has been catering to the Dravidianist and Tamil separatist constituency in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. There are many who take his words as axiomatic. Suki Sivam is a well known orator in the spiritual circles of Tamil Nadu.
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