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Nepalese are probably the only people on the planet who have a deity living not in heaven or in the subtle world, but with Nepalese on Earth.
According to the ancient religious radiation here, the goddess Taleju, also known as Durga, constantly acquires bodily embodiment in little girls called kumari. In Nepal periodically choose immaculate virgins who have thirty two signs of impeccability. From early childhood to sexual Kumari ripening brings happiness and prosperity to its people, and then, abandoned by the divine essence, return to the ordinary of life.
Becoming a Kumari is not an easy test, but at the same time a huge one. an honor for a Nepalese girl. This title is almost always honored children from the aristocratic caste, whom from the diapers learn to look, speak and, most importantly, think. At the same time in the Himalayan state there are about ten Kumari. All of them existence is aimed at serving compatriots – to girls the sufferers constantly come with prayers and requests, desiring look into the eyes of the earthly goddess and see Taleja in them.
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To become a Kumari, a girl must be pretty, and her pedigree and horoscope should be perfect. Child must be completely healthy, including without any birthmarks on the body. The goddess Taleju should not bleed, therefore Kumari they guard like the apple of an eye, preventing it from pricking or cut yourself. However, at ten to fifteen years old when a girl the menstrual cycle begins, it is freed from the sacred responsibilities and begins to be perceived by fellow countrymen as ordinary a man, and in her place a new lucky woman is immediately chosen divine light.
Earth goddess is like a slave in a golden cage
Kumari live in separate rooms, where the endless rush stream of worshipers. The crowned girl spends her first night in a company of severed goat and bull heads – it is believed that such sacrifices are simply necessary for the goddess for her complete deification.
The following years, Kumari lives alone in his room. Child only dresses in red clothes and does not wear shoes. Thirteen times in the year Kumari leaves his monastery, but is not able walk on the ground – the girl is moved exclusively on a stretcher. Undoubtedly, such a sedentary lifestyle adversely affects health of a young Nepal. Engage in a kind of physical exercises she can only in her room and only in loneliness, while at the same time, as a rule, she should sleep.
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Universal attention and adoration are the only benefits of such hard life. Any desire of Kumari, although it is for her servants by law, however the strict framework of divine precepts makes the range of entertainment for such a girl is practically zero. Ask yourself a TV, computer, or at least a kitten, she doesn’t maybe, but because the whole, the most interesting for evolving consciousness, a decade or more. However, Today Kumari at least have the opportunity to use the services private teachers. Formerly divine bearer education Talej was forbidden.
Upon reaching puberty, the girl returns to the people, where She is waiting for socialization, getting used to life and work. Marriage for former Kumari is in great doubt, because among the Nepalese it is believed that ex-goddesses cannot become wives. Like, they bring only misery to their spouses and may well send them to the forefathers, inadvertently sending a sick or unhappy person to the chosen one happening.
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