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The practice of the worship of Devol deviyo or the cult of Devol is widespread among the Sinhalese, specially in the Southwestern lowlands and coastal areas of the country. Devotees who make offerings at the shrines and perform rituals usually seek vengeance, benevolence and prosperity from the deity to solve their day to day problems. [ 2 ]
Because of his lineage, he has well connected to both Yakṣa and Nāga clans. It is said that deity Dedimunda first landed at Dondra area in southern Sri Lanka from South India. [4] [5] After landed at Devinuwara, he went to Seenigama, and later to Aluth Nuwara area in the Kegalle District where he made his permanent abode.
Historians attribute the introduction of goddess Pattini to the island to Gajabahu I, a Sinhalese king who ruled Sri Lanka from 113-135. As per some historians, the Cilappatikaram mentions Gajabahu's presence at the consecration of a temple to Kannagi (identified as Pattini in this case) by the Chera king Cenkuttuvan .
The Naga people are believed by some to be an ancient tribe who once inhabited Sri Lanka and various parts of Southern India.There are references to Nagas in several ancient texts such as Mahavamsa, Manimekala. Naga people are ancient Tamil tribe.They were generally represented as a class of super-humans taking the form of serpents who inhabit ...
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate , a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
There are number of theories as to the origin of the shrine. According to Heinz Bechert [7] and Paul Younger, [8] the mode of veneration and rituals connected with Kataragama deviyo is a survival of indigenous Vedda mode of veneration that preceded the arrival of Buddhist and Indo-Aryan cultural influences from North India in Sri Lanka in the last centuries BCE, although Hindus, Buddhists and ...
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The launch of the Viceroy Special was spearheaded by Hemasiri Fernando and Cliff Jones. [3] The idea of re-introducing steam to Sri Lanka rails was inspired by a tourism promotional visit to Sri Lanka in 1984 by Cliff Jones who, returning from a day trip to Kandy, called at Dematagoda loco sheds and saw, what he later described a graveyard of 'veritable massive tourism potential' and put the ...