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    The legend of Guruvayur Krishna temple in Kerala involves Lord Vishnu carving a deity from stone and presenting it to Lord Shiva and Brahma. King Manu and his wife worshipped Brahma and received the deity. Lord Vishnu promised to be their son in four births to allow continued worship. He was born as Prasnigurbha, Vaman, Rama, and Krishna, bringing the deity each time. When Krishna left earth, he asked Uddhava to give the deity to Brihaspathy to find a home. After Dwaraka flooded, Brihaspathy and Vayu found the deity and Parasurama led them to Guruvayur,

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    The legend of Guruvayur Krishna temple in Kerala involves Lord Vishnu carving a deity from stone and presenting it to Lord Shiva and Brahma. King Manu and his wife worshipped Brahma and received the deity. Lord Vishnu promised to be their son in four births to allow continued worship. He was born as Prasnigurbha, Vaman, Rama, and Krishna, bringing the deity each time. When Krishna left earth, he asked Uddhava to give the deity to Brihaspathy to find a home. After Dwaraka flooded, Brihaspathy and Vayu found the deity and Parasurama led them to Guruvayur,

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    The legend of Guruvayur Krishna temple in Kerala involves Lord Vishnu carving a deity from stone and presenting it to Lord Shiva and Brahma. King Manu and his wife worshipped Brahma and received the deity. Lord Vishnu promised to be their son in four births to allow continued worship. He was born as Prasnigurbha, Vaman, Rama, and Krishna, bringing the deity each time. When Krishna left earth, he asked Uddhava to give the deity to Brihaspathy to find a home. After Dwaraka flooded, Brihaspathy and Vayu found the deity and Parasurama led them to Guruvayur,

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    There are many ancient temples in Kerala, but Guruvayur Krishna temple stands apart from all the
    rest with its many legends and myths. The deity itself is unique as it has been carved out from a
    special stone and it is believed to have done by Lord Vishnu himself. It is in his Majestic form or
    Vishwarupa. He presented it to Lord Shiva and n turn he presented it to Lord Brahma. King Manu
    and his were worshipping Lord Brahma on those days for a child. Being happy with their devotion,
    Lord Brahma gave the deity to them and asked to worship it with great devotion. They followed his
    instruction and Lord Vishnu appeared in front of them as he was pleased with their devotion. He told
    them that he will take birth as their son in their four births and he will bring the deity along with him
    in all these four births, so that they can continue their divine worship in four births.
    First he took birth as Prasnigurbha,
    who appeared in front of Druva and
    created the planet Druvaloka for
    Druva. He is also responsible for
    giving Brahmacharya or Celibacy to
    the world. In the next birth, King and
    Queen took birth as Kashyapa and
    Aditi. Lord took birth as their son
    Vaman. In the two successive births
    they came to earth as Dasharatha and
    Kausalya and Vasudeva and Devaki.
    In both the occasions, Lord took birth
    as their son, Sri Rama and Sri Krishna
    respectively. During his incarnation as
    Krishna he took the deity to Dwaraka
    and used to worship it along with his
    wife Rukmini and his devotee Uddhava.
    Days have passed and the time has come for Krishna for ascension to heaven. He asked Uddhava
    to handover the deity to Brihaspathy, the master of Devas (Demigods) to find out a suitable place
    and to install it. Unfortunately, Dwaraka has been swallowed by the great deluge before Uddhava
    can reach Brihaspathy. However, Brihaspathy came to know about the instruction of Krishna and
    he, with the help of his devotee Vayu, the god of wind located the floating deity and took it and
    started searching for an ideal place to keep it. In their journey they entered present day Kerala
    where they met Parasurama, who was on his efforts to bring the same deity to Kerala. He took both
    Brihaspathy and Vayu to a place which was blessed with greenery and there was a lotus pond too.
    They felt the presence of Lord Siva and Goddess Parvathy too there.

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    there. Both Siva and Parvathy went to the opposite side of the pond which is called as Mammiyoor.
    Since the deity has been installed by Guru (master in Sanskrit) and Vayu (the god of wind) the
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