Avatharam

So, the universe was being demolished by giant snakes which were trapped by goddess Ammavaru (Bhanupriya) who in turn trap her in a rock on an anonymous hill once every millennium (or whatever sounds more ominous). This, we are told by someone who wishes to commit an ancient version of land fraud a millennium back, is a trap that is broken when someone born under the simha rashi voluntarily burns to ashes in a fire that burns endlessly in front of her statue.

He still happily gulls the villagers into thinking that Ammavaru wants them out of those hills, and, after they are ....