The Great Artist, . Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

Like a character in folklore you lived
You went decades before forever
The great folklore artist and finder
New themes and characters of epic in Theyyam
He made wonderful forms of epic characters
The character of warriors and reformers
The characters selected from epic texts
Those for devotional purpose of the downtrodden
Where they found their hope against injustice
Before whom we complained and complains
Against the sorrows and injustices, untruths
The daily woes, ills, and non curable diseases
The theyyam artist 'Manakkadan'Stands as a sage
Or a Master craftsman of artist sometime before
The myths are many, mythology wide
The challenging spirit of the great one real
Opting to challenge the feudal lords through arts
Otherwise punishable even by death those days
The magic of life situations made wonders
And lyrics and hymns wrote in beautiful rhymes
There we call it Thottam Pattu in Malayalam
Through the hymns the characters make wonderful
The magical realism of epic characters visible
They can jump in fires, water, and climb in heights
The drums are beaten in non classical style
The theatre is only the village diety premises
The secular way the functions going on
The woes of poor ones are many before Theyyams
The wonderful goings of performance
They find the mental relief to ease the tensions
The unique festivals are continuing for centuries
Though myths are only for myths to be reckoned.
The followers concludes the theory on the great one
Who made the salvation for ever sitting on the cellar
One in stones he made himself to rest in peace.