Nepal chose a two -year -old girl as a new living goddess after the old tradition of the Himalayan country. Aryatara Shakya was chosen as a new Kumari or the “virgin goddess” that replaced the existing during the longest and most powerful Hindu festival in the country -the Jatra.
Shakya visuals – dressed in a red dress with the forehead and bracelets in the hands that have pulled around the carriage – now make wheels on social media. Kumaris is obliged to wear red, pin your hair in topknots and have a “third eye” on his forehead.
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Who are Kumaris?
Kumaris are selected from the Shakya clans in the Newars community, indigenous in the Kathmandu Valley, and in the mostly Hindu nation, both Hind and Buddhists are honored. Selected girls are 2 to 4 years old and must have flawless skin, hair, eyes and teeth. They should also not be afraid of darkness.
What is Indra Jatra and other festivals in October?
The Indra Jatra weekly festival has launched a series of October celebrations, including Dashain, the Earth’s Main Festival and Tihar, the Festival of Lights.
Tuesday was Dashain on the eighth day, a 15 -day festival celebrating the victory of good over evil, with closed schools and offices when families met to celebrate.
The living goddess Kumari is visible as it sits inside the car during Indra Hatra, a festival that refers to the end of the rainy season in Kathmandu.
How does the new Kumari celebrate?
During the festivities, family, friends and devoted, the newly selected Kumari streets were posted by Kathmandu streets before entering the temple palace, where she would stay for several years. The devotees stood up to touch their legs – with a traditional sign of maximum respect – and offered flowers and money. The new Kumari is scheduled for blessing devotees, including the President, on Thursday.
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Nepalese newly appointed living goddess Kumari Aryatar Shakya is carried by her father when she goes to Kumari Ghar, the Temple Palace, where she will live in Kathmandu in Nepal.
What did her family say?
When she talked to the AP press agency, Shakyain’s father shared that she had always had intuition, that she would be a goddess before her birth, and added that when his wife was pregnant, “she dreamed of being a goddess and we knew someone would be very strange.”
“She was just my daughter yesterday, but today she is a goddess,” her father Ananta Shakya said.
Who was the former Kumari?
Former Kumari, Trishn Shakya, now 11, left the back entrance to the bunk bed, which bears her family and supporters. Since 2017 she worked as a living goddess.
Kumari, a Nepalese living goddess, is carried high next to the car with which he will run, pulled out, around the center of the capital in Kathmandu in Nepal.
How are Kumaris selected?
Families from the Shakya clan, which meet the criteria, compete to choose their daughters as Kumari, a prestigious position that increases the status of the family in their clan and society.
What is life for Kumari?
Kumaris leads a highly separated life. They have only a few selected teammates and are allowed outdoors only in rare cases, mostly during festivals.
Former Kumaris often tries to adapt to normal life, learn everyday work and attend ordinary schools. According to Nepalese folklore, men who married the former Kumari are considered young, so many of these women leave free.
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How did traditions change?
In recent years, tradition has evolved. Kumaris is now allowed to receive education from private lecturers inside the temple palace and can even have television. The Government provides Kumaris retirement of a modest monthly retirement of around $ 110 ( £9,000 to £9 500), slightly above the minimum wage.
(With inputs from the AP press agency)
(Tagstotranslate) Nepal Mein Ladkon kya Bola Hain
