For other islands see Maalhos

Maalhos

Maalhos as a place name may refer to:* Maalhos * Maalhos...

Maalhos (Dhivehi

Dhivehi language

Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by about 350,000 people in the Maldives where it is the national language. It is also the first language of nearly 10,000 people in the island of Minicoy in the Union territory of Lakshadweep, India where the Mahl dialect of the Maldivian...

: މާޅޮސް) is one of the inhabited islands of Southern Maalhosmadulhu Atoll

Southern Maalhosmadulhu Atoll

Southern Maalhosmadulu Atoll is an administrative division of the Maldives. It consists of two separate natural atolls, namely the southern part of Maalhosmadulhu Atoll and the smaller natural atoll known as Goifulhafehendhu Atoll .Situated on the west...

, code letter Baa Atoll

Baa Atoll

Baa Atoll is an administrative division of the Maldives. It consists of three separate natural atolls, namely southern Maalhosmadulu Atoll , the Fasdūtherē Atoll and the smaller...

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Anthropology

In this island there is the custom once every year to take a bath in seven different wells (haiy valhuń feń veruń).
This is probably an ancestral Dravidian

Dravidian peoples

Dravidian peoples is a term used to refer to the diverse groups of people who natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. Populations of speakers of around 220 million are found mostly in Southern India. Other Dravidian people are found in parts of central India, Sri Lanka,...

custom. The Pulaya or Cheruman, an agricultural caste of Kerala, used to take a bath in seven different tanks when they were considering themselves polluted.
During the eid festival men cooks (firihenun kekkun) and give a dinner for ladys and then women cooks (anhenun kekkun) and give a dinner to all men in the island.
jungle parade which the people of maalhos do is a modified edition of the parade which the armies do.

History

By historical researches the researchers have foud that Buddhism was the main religion of maalhos. Hassan Ibraahim (aaveli) found a damaged part of a budda head from the old grave yard.