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Weapons rest confidently in hand, jewelry and textiles signal rank, and the poised expressions reflect a being who is neither fully divine nor merely human. Kattavarayan was worshipped as a chieftain spirit, a village protector, and a moral enforcer, invoked during festivals and rituals to guard land, justice, and communal memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1527\"\u003eThese lithographs emerged from early ethnographic efforts to record South Indian belief systems for colonial audiences. Yet what survives beyond the archive is dignity. The artist preserves Kattavarayan not as spectacle, but as an icon of authority rooted in the soil. This is a deity born of landscape and lived experience, a protector whose power lies in loyalty to people rather than distance from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1908\"\u003eIn Tamil tradition, kaaval deivams like Kattavarayan stand at thresholds: village borders, fields, and moral boundaries. 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