bunch of idiots living in countryside being weird doesn't mean all Sinhalese follow these customs. you sound like you've never been to SL. most sinhalese don't care about these gods at all. we only truly celebrate new year and vesak.
and only the last dynasties married south indian women. vijaya married a north indian woman so did most kings at the time.
country side idiots Paththini (Tamil Kanagi Amman) Dance is Lankas official traditional dance
You cant dismiss Sinhala country "idiots" they form the majority. And the minority Sinhala elite ruling class (karavas/nayakes/naikes) trace their roots to Tamilnadu
The Nayaks of Kandy (a.k.a. Kandy Nayak Dynasty) were the rulers of Sri Lanka with Kandy as their capital from 1739 to 1815. They were also the last dynasty to rule Sri Lanka. They were related to the Madurai Nayak dynasty[1] and to the Tanjore Nayak dynasty.[2] There were four kings of this lineage and the last king, Vikrama Rajasinha, was captured by the British and exiled to Vellore Fort in India[3]
Much earlier to the establishment of the Kandy Nayak dynasty, it was not unknown for the Sinhalese to take wives from ruling clans across Southern India.[4] The first to do so was King Vijaya who procured his royal consort from the city of Madurai.[4] Later kings followed suit.
Because the Kandy kings received military support from the Nayaks of Madurai and the Tanjore Nayak dynasty[5] to fight off the Portuguese, alliances between Kandy, Madurai and Tanjore were already established. In the 17th and 18th centuries, marital alliances between Kandyan kings and Nayak princesses were a matter of policy.[4] When a Sinhalese Kandyan king, Narendra Sinha, died without an offspring, the brother of his Madurai Nayak queen succeeded the throne in 1739 under the coronated name of Sri Vijaya Raja Sinha.[2] Thus in 1739 the Nayaks came to rule the Kandy kingdom.[4]
These Nayak kings continued to marry with their Tanjore and Madurai counterparts. The Nayak kings were Hindus. They later converted to Buddhism and were responsible for renaissance of Buddhist culture in the Island
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/Nayaks_of_Kandy
Karavas
Karava lore as well as historical manuscripts such as the
Mukkkara Hatana and royal grants from the mediaeval period indicate that the
most recent steams of Karavas migrated to Sri Lanka from the area previously known as Kuru Mandalam (Coromandal coast) of South India. Related communities in India are found north of Tanjore in Tamil Nadu well into the Andhra Pradesh coastal areas.
http://www.karava.org/home/kshatriya_maha_sabha
vijaya married a north indian woman so did most kings at the time.
The first literary links between Pandyas of Madura and Lanka appear in the semi-traditional part of the Mahavamsa which tells of the founding of the Sinhala monarchy by Vijaya who arrived on the island of Lanka in the year of Buddha's nirvana (486/483 BC).
Having arrived in Lanka Vijaya sent for a Pandyan wife.
But the ministers, whose minds were eagerly bent upon the consecrating of their Lord (Vijaya), and who, although the means were difficult, had overcome all anxious fears about the matter, sent people, entrusted with many precious gifts, jewels, pearls and so forth, to the city of Madhura in southern (India), to woo the daughter of the Pandu king for their Lord, devoted (as they were) to their ruler; and they also (sent to woo) the daughters of others for the ministers and retainers. When the messengers were quickly come by ship to the city of Madhura they laid the gifts and letter from the king. The king took counsel with his ministers and since he was minded to send his daughter (to Lanka) he, having first received also daughters of others for the ministers (of Vijaya), nigh upon a hundred maidens, proclaimed with beat of drum: 'those men here who are willing to let a daughter depart for Lanka shall provide their daughters with a double store of clothing and place them at the doors of their houses. By this sign shall we (know that we may) take them to ourselves' ....... Then Vijaya consecrated the daughter of the Pandu king with solemn ceremony as his queen. (Mahavamsa VII,48-74)
http://coins.lakdiva.org/ancient/anuradhapura_period.html
how you justify Sinhala worship of Tamil god Murugan aka Kataragama deviyo officiated by Sinhala King Dutugemunu after defeating Tamil Chola Ellanan ruler of Lanka ? Was Dutugemunu an idiot ?
After defeating the king Elara's rule in the country, the king Dutugemunu has done a sacrifice meditation where the place of Kiri Vehera Kataragama and again Kataragama deviyo appeared in front of him and the king asked what should be done for the help given by the god for winning the war, then the god replied by striking an arrow to the direction of Wedahitikanda from Kiri Vehera, then built a temple for the god,in the place where the arrow fell down.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Dutugamunu
Sinhala new year and vesak are not Sinhala origin. Sinhala New year is based on Tamil panchagam or almanac (astrogical computation) Vesak day honors a Nepali who got enlightened in Bihar in present
India.
Even the Perahera isnt Sinhala , it was introduced by Tamil Pandya queens
It is doubtful whether the procession as described by Fa Hien continued to be held annually after Anuradhapura ceased to be the capital of Ceylon. It is clear, however, that the Dewale Peraheras that we have today in the Esala Perahera in Kandy did not form part of the Procession referred to by Fa Hein. From the information I have been able to gather, the Esala Perahera as we know it today, with the four Hindu Dewale Peraheras participating in it, had its origin in 1775 A.D. under the reign of King Kirthisri Rajasinghe.
The Perahera he inaugurated in his reign was confined at first to the four Hindu Dewales, because by then Hindu practices and rituals had crept into Theravada Buddhism owing to the influence of Mahayanism as well as that of the King's consorts who were Hindu Princesses from South India.
During this time a body of Siamese priests who came to Ceylon for the restoration of the Upasampadha ordination were surprised to find a purely Hindu ceremony in the capital of a pre-eminently Buddhist country.
http://lankalibrary.com/heritage/esala.htm
bs... tamils are some of the most ridiculous delusional people on earth. movies exactly reflect their mentality.
loser , their movies are remade in various languages -
Original Tamil- a black comedy
Pakistani