Nov 2014 (next month) will mark the Gadhimai Festival in Nepal, a Hindu religious event that takes place every 5 years where staggering 500,000 animals are expected to be slaughtered. . Gadhimai festival is a month-long Hindu festival that is held once every five years at the Gadhimai temple of Bariyarpur, in Bara District in southern Nepal. The event involves the worlds largest sacrificial slaughter of animals – including water buffaloes, pigs, goats, chicken and pigeons – with the goal of pleasing Gadhimai, the goddess of power. Participants believe that animal sacrifices for the Hindu goddess Gadhimai will end evil and bring prosperity.The Bariyapur festival has become so big, in part, because such ceremonies have been banned in many areas in the neighboring Indian state of Bihar. . Time has now come to ask ourselves - Is this centuries-old tradition that should continue as our pride or is this a religious madness we must stop?
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:48:05 +0000
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