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The word "Ent" is from the Old English ent or eoten, meaning "giant". Tolkien borrowed the word from a phrase in the Anglo-Saxon poems The Ruin and Maxims II, orþanc enta geweorc ("cunning work of giants"), [1] which describes Roman ruins. [T 11] [2] In Sindarin, one of Tolkien's invented Elvish languages, the word for Ent is Onod (plural Enyd).
When the tree dies for some reason, another tree is planted in the same location. Spiritually, it is considered as the rebirth cycle. [ 13 ] According to the historian Soundara Rajan, the institutionalization of the temple trees, temple history, and the festival calendar in South Indian temples was initiated during the 11th century.
The statues are made using the technique of wax casting and the cast can be of two types - solid and hollow cast. [ 5 ] Solid wax casts are traditionally used and the model of the required image is cast as a mould filled with wax , made by mixing pure bee wax with resin from the Platanus orientalis and ground nut oil in the ratio 4:4:1. [ 6 ]
The head of the statue stands at a height of 61 metres (200 ft) above the sea level. [4] The statue, with its slight bend around the waist is reminiscent [citation needed] of a dancing pose of the Hindu deities like Nataraja. The statue weighs 7,000 tonnes (6,900 long tons; 7,700 short tons). [5] Thiruvalluvar statue illuminated at night
The kings and emperors considered that the statues carved using emerald stones have divine power. They also considered that the emerald stone is free from faults (doshas). Worshiping Lord Siva in the form of emerald Lingam will remove all miseries and sins (doshas) and will also bring prosperity, improve health, enhance learning (education) and ...
There are weekly rituals like somavaram (Monday) and sukravaram (Friday), fortnightly rituals like pradosham and monthly festivals like amavasai (new moon day), kritika, pournami (full moon day) and chaturthi. Shivrathri in February–March and Margazhi Tiruvadhirai in December–January are the major yearly festivals celebrated in the temple.
W. B. Yeats describes a "holy tree" in his poem "The Two Trees" (1893). In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the main religions, that of "the old gods" or "the gods of the North", involves sacred groves of trees ("godswoods") with a white tree with red leaves at the center known as the "heart tree".
The last place in this list is known as VadaRangam as it is situated north of all these places (Vada in Tamil means north) or as Vata Rangam as the temple was once located in a forest of banyan (vata in Sanskrit) trees. [1] Though there are not many banyan trees in the area today, the single tree found near the temple lends credence to this view.