could not resist making a remark about kuladeivam

"could not resist making a remark about kuladeivam,,
Kuladeivam is a very general term..
Among Palakkad Iyers, I doubt whether the concept is existing at all..
Primarily Palani Andavar and Guruvayurappan are accepted as guiding deities..
The deity in one's own agraharam, is the presiding deity in one's life for Palakkad Iyers ..
The Palakkad Iyers have a concept of Adimai Kavu.. the Devi temple near their own native agraharams to which they offer themselves are slaves to the Mother deity..
Usually the tradition is based on the location of the Agraharam.. For Kalpathy and agraharams located in that area, the Kavu would be Manappully Kavu..
According to proximity, the Perakkattu Bhagavathy, Oottukulangara Bhagavathy of Peruvembu, the traditional Pratishta in Chittur etc are the adimai kavus for many.. there are similar other Kavus too.
The Iyers around Pallassana, Pallavur, Koduvayur etc have the Pallassana Meenkulathi Kavu also called Pazhaya Kavu as their adimai kavu..
But it is believed that the most potent Goddes around Palakkad is the Pazhayakavu of Pallassana, and many treat that as the default Kavu.. ( This is based not on personal views but on the basis of general belief in and around Palakkad.. in fact the Pallanssana pazhayakavu is adopted by many from far off places, among Iyers and also of many other communities.)
But usually the native agraharam decides the adimai kavu..
one fact to be reckoned is that the Kerala Tamil Brahmin settlements have different patterns.. Two main patterns are agraharams and ottra madams.
The traditions of people living in agraharam clusters based on replication of some traditional tamil agraharam perhaps vary considerably from tamil brahmins who have settled all over kerala in isolated homes..
Also the traditions vary between agraharams on the basis of their origial spots from which they migrated..
Some agraharams have vadama majority, lsome have brahacharanam, ashtasahasram mankudi, vaadhyama majority,
some are chozhyas and in the south kerala we can find mukkaalis ..
The traditions vary..
The traditions of Palakkad brahmins, Trichur brahmins Ernakulam brahmins Kollam brahmins and Trivandrum brahmins Kozhikode Brahmins, Kannur Payyanur Taliparamba Brahmins etc vary..
But the basic unity of dependence in the primacy of Vedas, sandhyavandahanam and other rituals.. etc run like Golden threads binding them
The respect given to Kanchi and Sringeri Acharyals by smarthas of kerala is another common feature..
For the people of agraharam, their prime lord is their or grama devatha and in addition they have some adimai kavu..
Even traditions in main Palakkad town Agraharams and Agraharams other than these in other parts of palakkad district vary.
Then even in palakkad city core agraharams the Kalpathy centred agraharams and Nurani Pallipuram Tirulakkadavu (tirunellai) based agraharams have different traditions..
In fact the old names inherited by palakkadI iyers would be indicative of their past and kula deivams too.. See how many Vaidyanathans and Vaitheeswarans are available among palakkad iyers.. and Abayaambaals and Thailaambaals