{"id":11789,"date":"2016-02-25T22:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2017-06-13T21:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:22:38","slug":"theyyam-kannur-kerala-kandanar-kelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/theyyam-kannur-kerala-kandanar-kelan.html","title":{"rendered":"Theyyam of Kannur, North Kerala – Kandanar Kelan Theyyam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theyyam is a form of ritual performance\u00a0usually seen in the temples of North Kerala. While there are\u00a0a few hundred different variety of Theyyams, nearly all of them have performers\u00a0painted in rich colours and adoring elaborate costumes. As soon as the\u00a0ritual\u00a0begins, the performer or Theyyam enters a trans-like situation and is considered God. At the\u00a0end of the performances, attending devotees seek blessings from the Theyyam and ask for solutions to their problems.<\/p>\n

Some Theyyam performances can be fierce, involving the performer jumping across fire or even\u00a0dancing with\u00a0torches on the body. Kandanar Kelan Theyyam is one such Theyyam where the performer, helped by two assistants, jumps over the blaze. Here is a collection of images from a Kandanad Kelan Theyyam held in Kunnaru Village in Kannur district, Kerala.<\/p>\n

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A Theyyam artist jumps over the fire during Kandanar Kelan Theyyam. Click on the thumbnails\u00a0below for more images from the Theyyam.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Theyyam is a form of ritual performance\u00a0usually seen in the temples of North Kerala. While there are\u00a0a few hundred different variety of Theyyams, nearly all of them have performers\u00a0painted in rich colours and adoring elaborate costumes. As soon as the\u00a0ritual\u00a0begins, the performer or Theyyam enters a trans-like situation and is considered God. At the\u00a0end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[471,25,1],"tags":[563,562,520,561],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-kerala","category-uncategorized","tag-kandanar-kelan-theyyam","tag-kannur","tag-kerala","tag-theyyam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/theyyam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-349","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}