The Legend of Ponnivala: Death and the Queen
The queen of Ponnivala must travel to heaven to plead with Shiva to remove her family curse. Later, she bears two sons who struggle to glorify their kingdom, until fate returns their spirits to the gods.
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The Legend of Ponnivala is a vast epic legend from the Kongu region of Tamil Nadu in South India. Little known outside of its home region, the story was brought to the world when Brenda Beck; then a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Oxford; left to study Tamil society in India in 1964. There, she was presented with a live performance of the popular local legend, which is still sung by bards in the ancient oral tradition. An epic adventure about the earliest farming origins in Kongu Nadu, the story took an astonishing eighteen evenings to perform, and used some 44 hours of reel-to-reel audio tape to record.
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The queen of Ponnivala must travel to heaven to plead with Shiva to remove her family curse. Later, she bears two sons who struggle to glorify their kingdom, until fate returns their spirits to the gods.