Showing posts with label living goddess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living goddess. Show all posts

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Kumari Devi, Living Goddess of Nepal

One of the things I looked forward to in Nepal was to visit the house of Kumari Devi, the Living Goddess of Nepal. Choosing a pre-pubescent young girl as a living goddess is an old tradition in Nepal. When she reaches her first menstruation her divinity and reign ends, and the search for her successor begins.



It says it all: This is the House of the Living Goddess, Kumari.