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The Kaliyattam festival is an annual Theyyam festival held in the temples in Kerala’s Malabar region

THEYYAM FESTIVAL

• Grand dance festival
• Held in different parts of Kerala, including Kasargod
• Consists of thousand-year-old rituals, traditions, and customs
• People consider it as a channel to a god and they thus seek blessings.
• There are around 456 different varieties 
• Both Males & Females perform Theyyam
• Devakoothu Theyyam, which is the only Theyyam ritual done by women
• Can only be seen at the Thekkumbad Kulom temple
• Performed in the North Malabar region of Kerala