Madurai Veeran (Tamil: மதுரை வீரன்; literally "the Warrior of Madurai") is a hero-god of the Tamil deified-dead tradition: a historical or legendary human figure whose violent death transforms him, through community veneration, into a guardian deity (kaval-deivam) of the city and its surrounding villages. He occupies the anomalous but essential category Blackburn (1985) calls the "killed-god" — figures whose power derives not from cosmic origin but from the injustice of their killing and
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