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Discover Periyachi Amman, a fierce folk aspect of Mother Goddess Parvati, celebrated across Tamil Nadu, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Caribbean. In the legend—documented in folk lore and the Encyclopedia of the Divine Feminine—a Pandya king attempts to kill a newborn destined to overthrow him. But Periyachi, appearing as an aged midwife, protects the child, reveals her true form, slays the king and the queen in a dramatic act of maternal justice, and saves the baby’s destiny.

She is worshipped as the guardian deity of childbirth, midwives, pregnant women, and newborns. Devotional rituals often involve blood offerings, nighttime worship, and Tamil mantras in the Shabar style. Devotees see her as a potent form of Adi Parashakti, Kali Amman, offering protection during perilous births. Her iconography includes a lion mount, trident, sword, noose, the rescued child, and ritual tools of midwifery — deeply symbolizing her protective nature.

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