Theyyam Patronage

  • Swarupas of North Malabar

    In the past, during the time of the local kings, their territories were divided by demarcation for administrative convenience, and such places are called swarupams. Theyam mainly existed in such fourteen swarupas. Each swarupa had a clan god of that swarupa, like the ancestral clan god. Kola swarup, Nidiyiruppu swarup, Thekkan Kutti swarup, Vadakkan Kutti…