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The Gods of The Gods Own Country
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I hope beyond the few dollars of royalty profit, these seeds will help the destitute Gods of God’s Own Country: Theyyam Artists. I hope the book and subsequent efforts will turn the eyes of the EAST and WEST toward this precious tradition. If you are interested in partnering with us, or even receiving complimentary other editions, please contact
When, in the Gods’ own country, people play the Gods and play the people who meet the Gods; the Gods do, indeed, come, and reality is full of them.
★★★★☆
David V. Mason, Ph.D.
(Fulbright-Nehru Fellow(01 & 22)
Editor-in-Chief of Ecumenica)
★★★★☆
Vinodini Jayaraman
(Artist, Indian Civil Service)
I hail from North Malabar, and this book fills me with nostalgia. The pages resurrect the mesmerizing sounds and sights of Theyyam. It brings back memories of drummers winding their way through the endless stretches of paddy fields; it powerfully recaptures the past in the midst of a modern world.
The book provides a unique way to ignite devotion and conduct research studies on various dimensions of Theyyam.
★★★★★
Chandran Muttath
(Sr. Fellow, Author/Film/Folklore)
I haven't read a glowing book like this one for years. Its glow results from its profound simplicity from multiple overlapping angles of view: some are ethnological, some are anthropological, and others are generally cultural on both individual and collective sides, and in what takes us far in time to the extreme meaning of the common human being.
★★★★★
Dr. Mustafa Al-Kilani
(Arab Scholar and Thinker)
Overall, this book considers most of the details of the performance and the social
and historical contexts of this extraordinary ritual, stunning visually and aurally to the outsider and
compelling and meaningful to the devotees from the villages who organize their lives around
the worship of these Theyyams.