Being a living goddess has its advantages for 10-year-old girl

Chicago Trubune ^ | June 27, 2007 | Neela Banerjee

[rochester]

WASHINGTON -- Even by the standards of the luminaries who sweep through Washington, the little girl in front of Lafayette Elementary School almost six miles north of the White House was special. Politicians, power brokers and the occasional celebrities who come through town hope to be respected and maybe, in a childlike place in their grown-up hearts, genuinely liked. Sajani Shakya, 10, is worshipped. In Nepal, Sajani is a living goddess, one of about a dozen such goddesses in her homeland who are considered earthly manifestations of the Hindu goddess Kali.

[ModelBreaker]

And, in just three years, she'll be a teenager. The earth should tremble in fear.

"I can't stay out 'til ten? OK, I just destroyed Chicago. Now may I stay out 'til ten, please?"

"She said what about my hair? I guess she didn't want that tongue, did she."

"OK. Suppose Ashley could only make monkey sounds. That would be sooooo cool . . . "

[JEC]

Your attitude only fosters the usual hatred of America by citizens of friendly countries.

[L98Fiero]

Big deal. I'm a Lama.

[mnehring]

How nice and Christian of you. (/sarc)

[wanderin]

I read this article on Yahoo a few days ago.

The girls are treated as a Goddess until puberty.

After puberty they are free to go on with life.

The catch...they are considered bad luck to marry.

Some life they get.

[Oberon]

Yes, it did occur to me...isn’t Kali irrefutably and perpetually Not Nice?

[mnehring]

Nice may not be the right word to use, but she is supposedly the embodiment of ‘destructive power’. There was some story where she killed a lot of demons then when her husband, Shiva came to see what happened, she killed him in her rage and danced on his body...

If anything, the Hindus are pretty creative..

[ladyjane]

My husband treats me like a Goddess.

It was good luck that we married!

I like our system better.

[MrB]

Big deal, I'm a LLama:

[rbosque]

Does she look like this, and if so, can I throw peanuts at her?

[frankenMonkey]

Re: Jedidah.
Must be "Yokel Day" here on FR...

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[mnehring]

Hell, if she looks like that, I want her to speak at the next GOP convention.

[colorado tanker]

Not surprisingly, the US MSM missed the main story. The Nepal government has ordered an investigation of the Kumaris’ living conditions on allegations they are being exploited.

[ShadowAce]

Big deal, I'm a LLama

Did you retire and become a duck?

[DBrow]

No, that’s Lord Ganesh, or Ganesha.

[Pistolshot]

Excuse me, your sheet is showing.

[Dinsdale]

Hindu gods aren’t like that.

Kali is the god of both creation and destruction. Hindus pray to her for crops, children etc while also knowing she brings destruction in its time.

I think any kid in their ‘terrible twos’ could be a ‘earthly manifestation of Kali.’