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Every girl would like to be treated like a goddess, right? Imagine being taken away from your family and kept almost completely isolated. A few years later you are tossed out and sent back home. You haven’t developed any normal social skills and most men think it ill fortune to marry you.

Kumaris are installed in the temple of Taleju Bhawani in the heart of Kathmandu.

Incumbents are cut off from normal life, and have limited contact with their families. They are not allowed to attend regular schools.

Some human rights activists argue that this can cause long-term psychological damage.

Once a Kumari starts menstruating, a new “living goddess” is chosen following traditional rules and rituals.

Nepal goddess inquiry ordered

Richard Evans Lee
November 02, 2006 •
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This is sad) well the thought to come to my mind is..nobody can fully control you to the point..where you cannot be thinking in your brain unless there may be severe physical injury. I know and have come to believe in my walk of life so far..that people like to control others whether it be conforming a human to religion..being born into it..being born into a family and having to follow there ways without any choice..but I see there comes a time where a indivisual can come to a point of there own enlightment or understanding..even though..people may have had others forceing enlightment upon another or forceing tradition upon another..I believe a healthy concept would to be for a human being to be enlightened by the main source of enlightment on a indivisual level and hopefully the enlightment that a person can recieve be a healthy awareness and enlightment for the benefit of themselves and for the benefit of others...when it comes to my life as a child to a young adult I look back and see how I absorded everything but what I should have but like they say you live you learn...everytime I have to reach out for help in what ever subject it is it seems to always just lead me back to the main source. I like the idea of self responsibility..when you are at the mercy of other peoples hands it can get dangerous......

Posted by: Rose | November 4, 2006 1:39 PM

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