Kumari
A Kumari is an young girl venerated like an alive goddess with the Nepal.
The tradition of the Kumaris ( virgin in Nepalese) date of the XVIIe century. It consists in isolating from very the young girls to adore them. These alive goddesses are the alive incarnation of the Hindu goddess Taleju represented by little girls prépubères.
Little girls, as of 4 years, resulting Buddhist families, are selected among thousands of candidates by a committee of Buddhist priests. Each one of them is selected at the time when it loses its first baby tooth and must resign at the time of puberty, to return to the normal life. There are today with the Nepal 12 kumaris.
Each year in September, at the time of the festival Indra Jatra, the young goddesses take part in a ritual during which they give to the reigning monarch the capacity to control for the whole year.
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