Nepal's "living goddess": never touch the ground and never marry. How's it going now?

Up to now, many countries in the world still maintain the custom of primitive worship. Take India as an example. The Ganges River is comparable to the reincarnation of gods in the hearts of Indians. No matter how much garbage and bacteria there are in the river, it is still so pure in the hearts of believers. Similar to India, Nepal has a strange custom. The "living goddess" is the object of worship. Although she is just a little girl who has never lived in the world and has no magical blessing, in people's eyes, she is the embodiment of the goddess Talleju and shoulders the important mission of protecting the country.

Nepal's "living goddess" is called the living goddess. According to folklore, the living goddess was born in the period of malla dynasty. At that time, King Jayaprakash Malla liked to play dice with the goddess Talezhu. They enjoyed themselves from morning till night. But the goddess Talezhu warned the king more than once that she could not be seen by other mortals, otherwise she would not continue to defend her country. One day, the queen followed the king into the inner room. As a result, she found the figure of the goddess Talezhu. The goddess was furious and left immediately.

Later, after the king's pleading, the goddess Talezhu finally let go. However, she will not appear in her own identity, but be possessed by a girl, and this girl is the living goddess of later generations. As the living goddess of all Nepalese people, the status of the living goddess is naturally unparalleled, and this is an opportunity for carp yue longmen. However, being a living goddess is not that simple. These girls aged 3-7 must meet dozens of harsh conditions before they can take the follow-up test.

First of all, girls should be born in the Sakyamuni family, that is, Buddhism, and their ancestors must live on both sides of the holy river to ensure their innocent origins and devout beliefs. Then, a girl should have no scars or spots, no teeth, no bleeding experience, and meet 32 virtues. Finally, the girl's constellation should be consistent with the king, her personality should be calm and calm, and she should not be afraid of the dark. Only when these conditions are met will the girl be taken by the royal priests for the final test-sharing a room with the buffalo head sprinkled with cow blood. Only when she stays calm all night will she be considered a living goddess.

After becoming the living goddess, the girl will leave her family and live in the temple of the living goddess. Before 7 o'clock every day, the living goddess must wash up; At 9 o'clock, the living goddess will sit on the golden throne and accept the worship of the people. During this time, the living goddess can't touch the ground with her feet, can't have any expression, and can't have any movements. Everything she says and does is regarded as instructions from the gods. Afternoon is the free time of the living goddess. After receiving the teacher's guidance, she can play with her friends. In this way, day after day, year after year, until the arrival of adolescence, the next living goddess will be ushered in.

After a series of ceremonies, the living goddess will retire, and she will lose her sacred aura and become an ordinary person again. However, because the Living Goddess is seriously out of touch with the society, she receives a monthly subsidy of around 300 yuan, which is basically twice the per capita salary, so it is no problem to maintain her daily life. However, although he has a fixed income every month, the life of the living goddess is lonely. There is a superstition among local people that people who marry the living goddess will cough up blood and die within six months.

Later, there were fewer and fewer candidates for the living goddess. Even if life is hard, few families are willing to send their daughters to the living goddess. I have to say, this is also an ideological progress, right?