This is called a tani maram, and is a kind of altar, or residence, for the demon Madan, resembling the temporary shrines on sticks or platforms erected by the Pulayars.
For the festival, the ground around the temple was cleared of weeds, the outhouses and sheds decorated with flowers, and on the tani maram were placed two bunches of plantains, at its foot a number of devil-dancing sticks.
The battlements were added when the tomb was turned into a fortress by the Caëtani in the thirteenth century.
In the island of Huahine the pyramid of the chief god Tani or Tane was a hundred and twenty-four feet long by sixteen feet broad, and it had only two steps or stories.
Tani may have taken Memlinc into his household with a view to the production of the triptych under his own eye.
It is presumed that Tani engaged Memlinc's services at some date after 1465 to paint or, if the work had been commenced by some other painter, to complete this picture.
In 1466 Tanivisited Florence, and there married Katherine, daughter of William Tanagli.
In any event, theTani and Spinelli portraits are fine examples of the class, though perhaps Sir John Donne's appeals to us more because of the fuller knowledge we have of the man.
The word oro, many, may be attached: na mwane oro gi many men, taniai oro many people.
Professor [=O]tani in referring to it says: "It was a purely black cat.
Of all the people who welcomed me back to Rome, the most cordial were the blind Duke and the Duchess of Sermoneta, whom I was delighted to find established for the winter in the upper floor of the old Caëtani Palace.
Since her marriage, the Duchess had contrived to conciliate the whole Caëtani family, not only to herself, but to each other.
This the Prince had to open with the Queen, so we had to be there by eleven, but because the King and Queen were to be there, all the great nobles stayed away, so for once Palazzo Caëtani did not shine.
And when he took her aside and questioned her, he found that the child's father was Taira no Atsumori, who had fallen in battle at Ichi-no-Tani years ago.
And now I am going down to Ichi-no-Tani to pray for the salvation of Atsumori's soul.
Therefore, in the Shishi-ga-tani plot the part assigned to the priest Saiko was to induce Go-Shirakawa to take active interest in the conspiracy and to issue a mandate to the Minamoto bushi throughout the country.
Yoshitsune's failure to repair to Kamakura after the battle of Ichi-no-tani inspired Yoritomo's first doubts.
He wrapped and addressed it painstakingly with a little brush-- Esquire Philp Weare, Kasumiga-tani Cho, 36.
In Quiepaa Tani there are a good many unoccupied persons, who spend their lives in wandering about, a prey to an incurable ennui.
Quiepaa Taniopened its gates wide before the two young pale virgins.
Now that we have made Quiepaa Tani known to the reader, let us terminate this chapter by saying that Addick and his companions, after wandering for some time through the streets, at length reached the Iztlacat-expan.
She had told the High Priest of the presence in Quiepaa Tani of a great Yuma medicine man, whose knowledge might be useful in restoring the health of Addick's prisoners.
The versatile artist, Tani Buncho, created a school which had many adherents, including the distinguished Watanabe Kwazan and Eiko of Tokyo, lately deceased, one of its best exponents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tani" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
