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Karivellur
Karivellur is located at the northern side of Kannur District. Karivellur gained its name from "Karivellan",another name of Lord Shiva. "Ooru" stands for 'place'.
Thus Karivellur is for the sitting place of Shiva.The archeological survey of India found out remainings of Stone age and Iron age Karivellur.
So it is understood that ,during 500 BC onwards ,life was settled at Karivellur .Only Scheduled tribes were there during that period. Later , Budhism and Jainism invaded to this place ,along with other parts of Kerala .
It is belived that the present "Vaniya" and "Saliya " communities belong to Jainism and "Thiyya" community is from Budhism. Areas like "Pallikkovval", “Pallikkandam " of Karivellur show the effect of Budhism and Jainism , since "Palli" means the sitting place of God in their scripts.
During 9BC to 8BC, Bhramins came to Kerala from different parts of try-region>India like Karnataka ,AndhraPradesh etc. Thus Karivellur also came under their dominance.Slowly Budhism and Jianism gave way to Brahmins. One big example for Brahmins' dominance is the Shiva Temple of Karivellur ."Namboodiries" were the controlling people of the temple. A special dance form ,known as "Koothu" was performed at the temple ,every year. Koothu is performed by the 'Chakyar ' family. It is interesting to note that Koothu is continueing in the present era also ! Later this temple came under the control of the "nambi " families like 'Kottukkara' ,'Edamana' and 'Karimbil'. Then Karivellur came under the rule of Chirakklal Thamburan. So, this temple was also controlled by them. It is understood that ,the neighboring Rajas fought for this agricultural village, since the soil was very good for agriculture. But the Chirakkal Raja was the ruler for very long time.
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CULTURE OF KARIVELUR
THEYYAM Theyyam is a dance form of Kolathu nadu. In olden days ,people of Kolathu nadu were praying for Goddesses like 'KALI','NAGADEVATHA' etc. These beliefs and other connected things were developed to make the dance known as Theyyam. All most all Gods and Goddesses were celebrated in Theyyam. The art from of Theyyam and Karivellur ,are strongly interconnected. Manakkadan Gurikkal of Karivellur modified and popularized this art form.The famous 'Adi Muchilot Temple' is the sitting place of 'Muchilot Bhagavathi', which is the Goddess of the caste vaniya. And , " Kalichan daivam", the goddess of pulayas is also sitting i n Karivellur. Karivellur is described in all most all 'Thottam pattu' of different types theyyams. Famous temples of Karivellur ,like Kuniyan parambathara , Theru Someshwari , Vaniyillam Someshwari etc are performing Theyyam in every year or in a break of some particular time period.
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