the legend, which the temple shares with many other temples across kerala is that, many hundreds of years ago a cherumi couple chanced upon a divine rock while grazing the forest with their live-stock. the rock bled blood upon being struck with a sickle and thus its divinity was made apparent to all. soon word went around of the discovery of a divine entity in the forest and the deity was formally instated in a specially made sanctum. a small temple (kavu) was established around the idol. not much historic records exist to authenticate the antiquity of the temple, but written records exist which prove that the temple is more than 300 years old.