Other gods mentioned were Mayyon and Vaali who were all assimilated into Hinduism over time. Kotravai in Palai-the desert and Wanji-ko/kadalon in the Neithal-the coasts and the seas. Tolkappiyam, mentions that each of these thinai had an associated deity such Seyyon in Kurinji-the hills, Thirumaal in Mullai-the forests, and Venthan in Marutham-the plains, The Sangam landscape was classified into five categories, thinais, based on the mood, the season and the land. Early iconography of Murugan and Sivan and their association with native flora and fauna goes back to Indus Valley Civilization. Murugan was glorified as, the god of war, who is ever young and resplendent, as the favored god of the Tamils.
Typical layout of Tamil architecture which evolved from koyil as kings residence.Īncient Tamil grammatical works Tolkappiyam, the ten anthologies Pattuppāṭṭu, the eight anthologies Eṭṭuttokai sheds light on early religion of ancient Dravidian people. Classical Tamil literature, which ranges from lyric poetry to works on poetics and ethical philosophy, is remarkably different from contemporary and later literature in other Indian languages, and represents the oldest body of secular literature in South-east Asia. Tamil literature is of considerable antiquity, and is recognised as a classical language by the government of India. Also, the language does not have many commonly used alphabets in the English language and Hindi (a product of Sanskrit and written in Devanagri script). The Tamil language preserves many features of Proto-Dravidian, though modern-day spoken Tamil in Tamil Nadu freely uses loanwords from Sanskrit and English and vice versa. Like the other languages of South India, it is unrelated to the Indo-European languages of northern India.
It has historically been, and to large extent still is, central to the Tamil identity. Tamils have strong attachment to the Tamil language, which is often venerated in literature as " Tamil̲an̲n̲ai", "the Tamil mother". Agathiar, First Sangam period poet of Tamil literature.
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