Theyyam- Popular Ritual Dance of North Kerala

This picture showing the makeup of Theyyam – the popular ritual dance of kerala. The performers of Theyyam belong to the lower caste community, and have an important position in Theyyam.Theyyam provides a good example for the religious evolution of, and the subsequent different stages in modern Hinduism, with the overall understanding that within Hindu sycretisms lay propitiation as ancient practices and rituals of ancient worship intended for the blessings of the supernatural not unlike, “in Indus Valley and other ancient civilizations, mother goddess had been invoked for fertility and prosperity”.