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It does not establish genealogy, hostility, ethnic ownership, or a complete map of historical worship.","evidence":[{"sourceId":"tolkappiyam-porul-5","title":"Tolkāppiyam III: Poruḷatikāram","url":"https://textgridrep.org/browse/49tqk.0","frame":"primary-text","locator":"Akattiṇaiyiyal, nūṟpā 5, complete six-line deity-and-landscape stanza","supports":"This edition prints Māyōṉ in the four-landscape sequence and associates him with the forest or pastoral world identified as mullai.","boundary":"The stanza establishes its own wording and literary classification. 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