அருள்மிகு ஸ்ரீ கோணம்மாள் அம்மன் வரலாறும் திருவிழாக்களும் (கருப்பட்டி கிராமம்) / Arulmigu Sri Konammal Amman History and Festivals (Karuppatti Village)

Man feared the power of nature and was created to worship nature as God. Worship of deities expanded as village deities, tribal deities, and other deities. Village deities and clan deities are idols. They are not related to the Gods of the Vedas claim. These do not have large buildings, untimely Pujas or big Festivals. This local idolatry is just opposite to a normal one. These deities belong to a clan or a group of people with a small temple and other patterns related to the big temples. It can be called ancestral worship. The deities are revered for their good nature. People crowded there at the time of the Festivals once in a year according to the Birth or Mukthi day related to the deity. In case, every full moon and new moon have poojas and charity. This article evinces about Konammal, the local deity of the Telugu speaking people in the village of Karuppatti, near Cholavanthan, Madurai district. It covers the history from Andhra Pradesh, a Telugu-speaking region, to a small village in the south of Tamil Nadu. The article also covers the apt chronology of the deities, the rites of worship, the history of the deity Konammal, the other subordinate deities in Konammal temple, and the festivals of the temple