Wierd News:Young Goddesses

[Danustouch]

ContentMail Presents: News of the Weird for August 13, 2001

In This Issue: *Goddesses Needed*
*Meter Theft*

Buddhist officials in Nepal are having a difficult time
recruiting 5-year-old girls to be official goddesses, to
live in palaces and be waited on hand-and-foot, according
to a March Associated Press dispatch from Katmandu. The
problem is that the goddesses' jobs end automatically at
puberty, and the girls increasingly are unprepared for the
rest of their lives, untrainable because of how sheltered
and pampered their early years were. (Mere tutors are not
permitted to tell a goddess to study, and legend has it
that men who marry ex-goddesses die young.)

[slvr_phoenix]

It just doesn't pay to be a deity anymore. Maybe they should offer an enlistment bonus like the Army does. He he he. :)

[Niamh]

I read this last month in the local paper. Interesting, isn't it? I don't know anything about Buddhism... do they have anything that might be equivalent to a nun? Women who dedicate their lives to the Buddha? I guess not...

[Danustouch]

to tell the truth..i don't know.......hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

[loopy]

Very interesting... a little bit scary.

[ladyrowan]

Originally posted by Danustouch
ContentMail Presents: News of the Weird for August 13, 2001

In This Issue: *Goddesses Needed*
*Meter Theft*

Buddhist officials in Nepal are having a difficult time
recruiting 5-year-old girls to be official goddesses, to
live in palaces and be waited on hand-and-foot,

If they give up trying to find a five year old, could i volunteer d'you think??
Would quite like to know what it's like to be pampered for once 8O

BB

[Wyrdsister]

Are these girls being asked to be the embodiment of some youthful goddess, or are they themselves being diefied for a defined term?

Sorry to sound so nerdy and academic! :)

Wyrdsister

[Earth Walker]

Originally posted by ladyrowan


If they give up trying to find a five year old, could i volunteer d'you think??
Would quite like to know what it's like to be pampered for once 8O

BB


I've settled for Calgon.:rolleyes: :D 8O 8O


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[stormyray]

Originally posted by slvr_phoenix
It just doesn't pay to be a deity anymore. Maybe they should offer an enlistment bonus like the Army does. He he he. :)
lol 8O 8O 8O

[Rævyn Cigány]

Originally posted by Wyrdsister
Are these girls being asked to be the embodiment of some youthful goddess, or are they themselves being diefied for a defined term?

Sorry to sound so nerdy and academic! :)

Wyrdsister

I think a little bit of both, Wyrd...and you're NOT nerdy....academic yes, but i would consider that a compliment...it's everything I'm not at this point ;) :p

BB


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