What's a goddess compared to the government

[yairhol]

This just in:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_re_as/nepal_living_goddess

It's a good thing the government is still more powerful than goddesses. Who are the gods to choose one of their own. The government will do that instead.


Critics have said the tradition violates both international and Nepalese laws on child rights. But the film director said the Kumari tradition can be modern as well.

modern my poopy.

Regards,
Yair

[tkingdoll]

Keep a child prisoner is indefensible. At least this child will get a proper life now, but the poor girl who replaces her fares less well. Mind you, she still may carry the 'unmarryable' stigma.

[CFLarsen]

Keep a child prisoner is indefensible. At least this child will get a proper life now, but the poor girl who replaces her fares less well. Mind you, she still may carry the 'unmarryable' stigma.

That's a good question: Why isn't this child abuse?

Still, I find it ironic that humans can strip a goddess of her divinity.

[yairhol]

Still, I find it ironic that humans can strip a goddess of her divinity
They're not humans, they're the government.


Keep a child prisoner is indefensible. At least this child will get a proper life now, but the poor girl who replaces her fares less well. Mind you, she still may carry the 'unmarryable' stigma.

She will not get a proper life because she is an ex-goddess which as the article says will probably not marry.

Regards,
Yair

[slingblade]

I can't imagine what kind of social stigma it must carry to be an ex-goddess. A demoted goddess, at that. I feel sorry for her, for that much. She didn't ask for any of this, and probably couldn't have refused it, but now she's going to pay for it, likely the rest of her life.