Mayon to Perumal: The Ancient Roots of Vishnu Worship in South India

From the Forest God Mayon to the Supreme Perumal: How South India Shaped Vishnu BhaktiLong before the Sanskrit Puranas codified the theology of Vishnu, the Tamil-speaking people of South India had already been worshipping a dark-skinned deity they called Mayon — literally, "the dark one." References to Mayon appear in the Sangam literature, a vast body of classical Tamil poetry composed roughly

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