When researchers and learned, knowing that the Siddhas transcended time-space, yet try to place them in a timeline, trapping them in the web of time-space; authors knowing pretty well that the Siddha's majesty cannot be contained in mere words yet try to contain them in the pages of their books and their stories; and the gurus knowing that the Siddhas are beyond form and name, yet gave them forms and names; the Siddhas seem to be breaking it all and the many false notions and beliefs held by even those who supposedly are said to profess the path and living it.
After having read much about his origin in books and as seen in movies, in wanting to know the truth from the horse's mouth himself, Suren and I decided to ask Agathiyar about his origin when the former was in Chennai in 2017. Agathiyar in a Nadi reading obliged us but only gave us a quick run-through and did not divulge the details as he told us it was not necessary to know.
After attaining the status of a Siddha in another life, and working further and discovering creation and its wonders, medicine, and the other sciences, Agathiyar was called up by Lord Kailai Siva. He was told that he had to get married to attain the state of Paripuranam or completeness. He arranged for Agathiyar to be married to Lobama. P.Karthigayan in his book "History of Medical and Spiritual Sciences of Siddhas of Tamil Nadu", Notion Press, 2016, mentions that Agathiyar (and Lobama) gave rise to 48 generations.
I came across a wonderful piece of information in a blog (lost track of the name of the blog though) that most of us have lost in time.
48 generations then would add up to 2,880 years.
Agathiyar in coming to us asks us how would he break up families and have them take on monkhood when he stands in Kalyana Theertham as husband and wife with Lobama. He (the bronze statue) having left the home as a bachelor last year, is in fact returning back to AVM, with his wife Lobama (another bronze statue purchased by a former host).
Sex is the glue that holds marriages intact at least until love unfolds between the couples. True love then sustains the marriage through fine and the worst of weather.
Agathiyar has broken all the myths and opinions held by many even those claiming to have been on the path and left accusing that the Siddhas are the cause of broken families, marriages falling apart, etc.