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Big Bob

Big Bob

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Read this in The News Of The Weird section of a local paper today and thought it would be of interest here:

"Buddhist officials in Nepal are having a difficult time recruiting girls to be official goddesses, to live in palaces and be waited on hand-and-foot, according to a March Associated Press Dispatch. The problem is that the goddesses' jobs end at puberty, and the girls are unprepared for the rest of their lives, untrainable because of how sheltered and pampered their early years were."

Bob

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Hi Uncle Bill,
Leave it to us Americans to screw up on the differences to two religions!
I have a friend at work, who is a Siekh(sp) from India. One guy came in a few days ago, and started talking about the Budhas that had been destroyed. My friend just kept telling him that that isn't his religion, but the guy wouldn't listen. Ohhh we American's can be soooo amusingly stupid when it comes to other cultures sometimes.

Bob
 
That we can, Bob. The most famous living goddess in Nepal is called Kumari. As mentioned she's a kid and will be replaced when she reaches puberty. While serving her term her feet are not allowed to touch the ground and she is carried everywhere she goes by attendants. I know there must be some links around on Nepal that have pix of past and perhaps current Kumaris.

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I don't believe pictures of the Kumari are allowed. On the Lonely Planet episode about Nepal, the camera man had to turn off his camera as the Kumari (or so I believe it was her) was carried into the room.

Bob

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Berk, yer a wonder.

Can anybody help me with where Kumari fits in the Hindu pantheon?

(And Berk, you're NOT allowed to answer this one. Give somebody else a chance.
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Anyone can pull a rabbit out of a hat. Pulling a hat out of a rabbit, now, that takes a bit more talent.

Umm, Berk, well, mfmph, OK here goes...

you didn't by any chance consider say, going to work in library science(?) as a living did you?

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Doc, I can't help myself - I think I have an obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Rusty, glad you're back and feeling up to posting. I had a classmate in law school who had a bachelor's degree in library science - said the first thing they had to do was take a book and tear the spine off, then rip up all the pages. Something about learning that "they're only books". Always struck me as creepy - I never met a book I didn't like!
 
Thanks for great link, Berk. Somehow I am not surprised you were able to dig this up. I also had a pal who was the head research librarian at my alma mater. His research got him 10 minutes on the Today show -- his biggest claim to fame. He's gone now and I'm scheduled to visit his grave with another mutual pal, English Prof. this Memorial Day. I am in that age range where the numbers start to diminish fairly rapidly now.

And, Modh, thanks for your link, too. Both links brought back many memories.

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