I have already shared so many posts about the astrology told by the Siththars. As a sequence to those posts we shall see about the “Paaichigai Aaroodam” told by Agathiyar. Paaichigai is a four faced bar made out of the tree. In this, fill the first three faces with the numbers 1,2,3 and in the fourth face write 6.
Before getting into the paaichigai aaroodam, we shall see certain clarifications. In the life of the ancient Tamilians, the art of fore telling has been existing in many forms. They are horoscopy, omens, aaroodam and prasannam.
Horoscopy is predicting the future based on the date of birth and the positioning of the planets.
Omens is those which are predicted based on the reason for the occurrence. If it thunders we say it would rain, if we feel hungry we need food. The extent of this reasoning is omens. This can be told in other ways as telling the future based on the consequences for those happening at present. In other words, judging the future based on the present happenings is called as omens.
Aaroodam, another form of astrology is a method of predicting the future based on the time when they come to ask about their problem, position they are sitting, their body language and the positioning of the planets. Apart from this by throwing the cowry and counting them and by throwing the paaichigai and counting the numbers on them, they say the future. In the forth coming posts we shall see about the paaichigai aaroodam told by Agathiyar.
In this paaichigai we should throw the paaichigais thrice and based on the numbers we get, the effects are told. Based on the numbers, pick the song related to it and say the effects. These 62 effects are stable. Based on the person asking the effects, the way the paaichigai is thrown and the person who is telling the effects varies. This is based on the "probability" method. This method is a separate and vast division in the mathematics.
The idea of this post is not to discuss or to make arguments about the truth in this kind of predicting future. The idea is to share the idea of our ancestors to the present generation and encourage them to proceed with further researches on them.
In the post coming further we shall see the effects of the paaichigai aaroodam told by Agathiyar. Anybody can use this method.
Original - www.siththarkal.com
Translated by சந்தியா
