In some folk-lores of remote villages in India
especially in south, they say that Munishavaras who were the sapta-rishis who
were peace endeavourers, turned warriors to protect Parvati who was being lusted by a local king, in the
latter part of the story these warrior-sages flayed him alive and yet their
enragement never went down. So they are worshipped as Munishwaras which mean “The
warrior-sages”, in villages of Tamilnadu and are offered ,food served with raw
meat or sometimes cooked unlike any other gods along with alcohol. These men
are sometimes seen married and sometimes polygamists.
Another story says that ,the wives of these 7 sages or
Saptha-rishis were being suspected by their husbands of their pregnancy (as
mentioned in Skanda purana) left them behind on the banks of river Ganga. When
they bore a kid each (6 in total and the seventh woman was also suspected by
her husband, as he thought that when all the women stayed together, she also
would have committed the same mistake as others). When the kid was born they
tried to kill it as they felt that the offspring was the cause of their
disdain. The kid was later called Karthikeya who later granted them a boon to
be worshipped as Sapta-matrikas who cause illness and malady to children (this
was done to wane the rage in them against children) but, they also grant boons
of unlimited wealth, health and wishes come true when are impressed by pure
devotion. Even till today people in the
country side, children of whom, suffer ill health or any kind of severe disease,
beg these gods
not to cause anymore trouble to their offsprings. Well
they are also seen as 7out of 10 Main forces called “The Dasha maha Vidyas”.
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