You are wrong..there r mentions of lord aiyappa in tamil literatures.The Tamil song, Shasta Varavu, states that there are 8 important incarnations and forms of Shasta. Among the Ashta-Shasta, the Adi Maha Sastha (Aiyanar) and Dharma Shasta (Ayyappan) are widely worshipped.
https://twitter.com/talk2sairam/status/1394993239933931523
The iconography of Sastha is discussed in Agama texts such as Amsumadbhedaagama, Karanaagama and Suprabhedaagama. Sastha or Ayyappa was essentially a Tamil deity, according to H. Sarkar, who conducted one of the most comprehensive architectural surveys of Kerala temples.
Prof R.nagasamy, former director of Tamilnadu archeology has done a detailed research on how ancient culture in kerla was linked to sangam age even 2000yrs ago!
And there was no exactly as kerla in ancient India..it was either chera nadu or malanaadu. Present tamil and kerla belonged to ancient sangam period and Malayalam is a variant of western Tamil language and it arose only after 8th cent AD !
See my thread on sangam period and its literatures !
https://twitter.com/Doc_dharm/status/1391691589932654594?s=19
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