MUTI- (മുടി) (முடி) Dear friends,
Yesterday I was seeing ashort show in you tube. The person was talking of how divinity can be maintainedin home. One thing he was tellingwas about brooms. Brooms should be well tied and washed and kept either insouthern side or western side in an East facing home. On no account, broomsshould be kept on Northern side. While replacing brooms, the old broom shouldbe discarded. However nowadays wepurchase more coconut brooms at a time, since availability at all times cannot betold in my area in Chennai. Regarding Palm flower brooms, while we purchase newone other is used to clean portico, pathway to entrance etc. Workers requiresmall length brooms, could be used more efficiently in compound cleaning. So wediscard old when brooms are more. Ladies would be combinghair, and fallen hair should be thrown on southern side of home. Never onEastern side. Actually we throw outside compound on southern side. On hearingabout hair, I thought I can make a posting about hair. It is a fashion with manymen growing hair and tie at back. Like women hair will not grow for men. I haveseen in Tamilnadu for some women even at 40, hair falls too much. Some thoughtson hair. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 14-8-21 1 Hair MUTI- (മുടി) (முடி). It is one ofthe words having same meaning in both Malayalam and Tamil languages. The English translation forMUTI is HAIR. Increasing Hair growth in headfor women and dying grey hairs in head are captive advertisements in all the TVchannels. One may astonish whether so much care is required for Hair. As age advance above 40, greyinghair and baldness is common with 95% of males. For women graying and falling of hair starts by about 50. However there are 5% males– Either they would not get grey hair or they may get grey hair- but nobaldness. Among women baldness is very rare. There are people who are allergicto chemical dyes. They adopt other hairstyles. Now a day hair transplanting is common for removing baldness. While one girl attainsmaturity more growth of hair starts. For a boy on getting maturity not only inhair, in face ,chest and some more body parts hair grows, but they aredifferent from hair on the head. 2. Growing Muti- Kudummi. With partial haircut andgrowing hair on head called Kudummi was common with men in Kerala andTamilnadu. In earlier days Kshathrias and Nairs too used to have Kudummi. Nowkudummi is grown by Brahmins and Nampoothries. Those who have studied Veda growKudummi. While I was working inTiruppur for a short period, the owner of the lodge, an Iyer was growingKudummi. In a casual conversation he told me- Once kanchi Periyaval advised him- You have studiedVedas, why don’t you grow Kudummi? Then onwards he is keeping Kudummi. We can see our sasthrikalsand boys STUDYING VEDAS keeping Kudummi. There is a saying also, “Chozhiyan Kudummichumma aduma” meaning- there is a purpose if one simply aggress to somethingothers do or talk. 3 Trimming hair Now trimming the hair endhas become a fashion with many girls and women. Some cut a small length also.Falling hair through neck to front is a fashion and often putting it back foryoung women. The eyebrow is an area ofshort hairs above the eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of thebrow ridges of some mammals. Their main function is to prevent sweat, water,and other debris from falling down into the eye socket, but they are alsoimportant to human communication and facial expression. It is common for people, mainly women to modify their eyebrowsby means of hair removal and makeup. I could see in soaps grandmotherswith fully white hair, but eyebrows trimmed. There would be growth ofhair in armpit on maturity and their growth is diminished by about 70 for bothmen and women. 4. Jatamuti Some people develop Jatamuti(Mattered hair) for unknown reasons. If hair is grown without maintaining it,it may form a jata- cannot separate between hairs. We cansee jatamuti with sanyasins. Some ifjata happens go to the temples and remove it by cutting. By shaving the headtwo or three times starting jata can be removed. We can see pictures of LORDSIVA drawn with mattered hair. While GANGA arrived with force on earth on theprayers of Bhageeratha, Lord Siva hold her on his head, made her move slowlythrough his mattered Hair. Hence the name Gangadhara for Lord Siva. 5. Hair cutting or Mutivettal. Yester years the haircutting was done by special community people. Later barber shops have become common andnow beauty parlor. Female children hairswere/are cut to certain period. Ladies hairs were trimmed in earlier days alsoin the tip for more growth or sometimes after a length. Older women (need not bewidows) also used to get their hair cropped for difficulty in maintaining.Anglos Indian women use to cut their hairs commonly. Among women, if they becomewidow it was a practice to shave hair in yester years among Brahmins. Now theycan be distinguished by wearing of black pottu among many or not wearingjasmine flowers. 6. Beard Some males like to keepbeard. Yester years it was nottrimmed. Now the beards are trimmed anddyed also. Many elders on account of this look younger. Yester years some piouspeople appeared by growing beard and some hair grown on head. I do recollect a face shown in child hood days in match boxes- Normallyappearing a person having beard and on reversing appearing as a person wearingcap!! 7. Hair grey and baldness - an indication of age. As males age they get greyhair. Though facial hair comes later greying occurs first to facial hair forunknown reasons. Baldness after 40 years due to falling of hairs is common. Due to tension and anxietygreying of hair can occur even earlier age. For some people greying occurs suddenly.Through ancestry some people get greying early. Some get very late. Even at 70,they won’t have a single grey hair and hair growth also would be thick. About 16 years back I metone of my General Manager who was a junior engineer with me. He passed ITS andbecome General manager. On meeting him Itold seeing his fully grey hair- He looks more aged. He smiled and said – Youall apply dye in hair which I do not. Nothing more with a smile. 8. Curling hair Curling hair is consideredas beauty. But too much curling is not so beautiful. Many of us who hadstraight hairs may recollect trying to make slightly curl using combing inyounger days. Ladies hairs are morecurly than men. They also grow more in length. Curling hair with women makethem beautiful. 6. Combing. First our fingers would haveused for combing and later combs would have developed first in wood, later inother soft materials. I think it is one of the cheapest items in the market.Different forms of combs are available and pocket comb is used by young males commonly.Ladies hand bag would always have two or three combs of different sizes. 7. Kurunira. Kurunira is the curledsmall hair growth on the cheek of women making them appear beauty. Specially with younger ones. As age advancetheir growth would diminish. 8. Mutikozhicchil. (Hair falling) Hair falling is common withwomen and less with men. All beauty isattributed to it while it is on Head. After falling it is considered dirtiest- aruveruppu tosee anywhere!!! We can see doctors andnurses wearing cap to avoid hair falling especially during operations. 9. Hair growth on body. Though human body iscovered with microscopic hairs everywhere except PALMS of hand and sole themore visible growth is told as hair growth. More hair growth on ears, eyebrow for men may not give good appearance.For women hair growth on ears does not occur. The hair growth on male and female are different not only in men, insome animals also. 10. Vananga muti and Muti chooda mannan The person who does notbend down his head is told as Vananga muti and the person who do not wear crown and consideredas king is called Muti choota mannan. Both are Tamil words. 11. Hair and life The external hair has nolife but in the root it has life. Thedead hair is falling down and because the hair end has no life on trimming,cutting etc. we do not feel the pain. But on pulling we feel the pain. Pullingon hair is as such sensitive and pain creating . Some people develop habit ofpulling hairs from eyebrow, ear, chestetc. Something similar to biting nails. 10. Chromosome and hair During puberty we can seemore linking of chromosome with hair growth. Chromosome disturbance can makeunwanted growth of hair in young girls and later it would settle. Some young girls we can see with tinyblack hairs in the upper chin on thisaccount. 11. Mutiyettu It is the playing of Daruka vadham in Devi temple. 12. Mutiyan. Rather than a personhaving more hairs, the word is used to mean a person destroying things -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/222550987.374260.1628928156462%40mail.yahoo.com.
