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St Thomas brought him, the Tamils Indianised him, and the rest follows from there.

- Devasena stands for Jewish Christians.

- Valli stands for Gentiles waiting to be converted.

- His twelve hands are the twelve apostles.

- The kavadi is a forgotten reenactment of Christ carrying the cross

John Samuel, then director of the Institute of Asian Studies, convened the first international conference on Skanda-Murugan in Chennai in 1998. He told scholars there that most researchers, himself included, believe Murugan was elevated from a historical person.

In 2005, he went further and wrote that the Somaskanda icon, which shows Siva, Uma and the child Skanda together, is nothing but the revelation of the 'Christian Trinity'.

And for all of this to work, one thing has to be true first. Murugan has to have started as a Tamil folk god or a dead chieftain, separate from Skanda, who was bolted on later by northerners.

That is also the settled position in Tamil academia, and has been for fifty years.

BUT here is the trouble with it.

The six stars of the Pleiades are the Krittikas. They nurse the infant Skanda, which is why he has six faces and the name Karttikeya, son of the Krittikas.

In Dravidian languages, 'min' means star and fish. So "six fish" on a Harappan seal also means "six stars".

A Soviet Dravidian specialist read one four-sign group as aru-min-kaatalan, beloved son of the six stars. That is what Karttikeya means in Sanskrit. The seal reading is arguable. The Tamil epithet is not — it runs through Tamil literature for centuries.

At Kalibangan, diggers found seven brick fireplaces on a ceremonial platform. Six in a row, one apart. That is exactly how Vedic ritual arranges the fires of seven priests.

The Rigveda has the story before it has the name. A fire the gods did not light, found hidden in the waters, nursed by seven river-mothers who crowd around him like mares around a foal.

The Mahabharata names him. The Krittikas see the blazing child, milk rises in them, each says 'esa mama putrah' (he is my son), and he takes six faces so all six can feed him.

The Sangam-era Thirumurukattrupadai already gives Murugan six faces, the Pleiades and Agni. It describes Brahmins doing his puja and calls them men of clans of yore, so not new arrivals 1,700 years ago. The same literature records the shamanic priestess sacrificing roosters to him.

Nobody was separating anything.

The full piece has the Harappan buffalo-slaying seal, the kavadi on seals from 3250 BCE, the Rigveda hymn about a fire the gods did not light, John Samuel of the Institute of Asian Studies calling the Somaskanda icon a revelation of the Trinity, and the temple the 2004 tsunami uncovered.

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