‘Divine Semen’ and the Alchemical Conversion of Iramatevar

Abstract

This article is a biographical study of the alchemist and tantrik siddha Iramatevar alias Yakoppu based on his original work in medieval Tamil. In the arduous process of knowledge acquisition and production Yakoppu took the remarkable step of visiting Mecca and converting to Islam. He was a prolific writer and in many works describes the imperative and mechanism of the realigning of his personal identity in fascinating detail. The intrepid persona of Iramatevar or Yakoppu is not a simple juxta-position of two traditions, Hinduism and Islam, but a veritable alchemical symbiosis.

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