When a devastating quake hit Nepal last week, a nine-year-old girl worshipped as a living goddess was preparing to receive devotees at her home in the heart of Kathmandu’s Durbar Square.
As the earth shook, the ancient temples and statues that packed the square collapsed, sending a massive cloud of rubble and dust into the air. But the home of the living goddess, or Kumari, escaped with just a few cracks.
“She protected us,” said Durga Shakya, the 55-year-old caretaker of the Kumari house, who like all her entourage is from the Newar community indigenous to the Kathmandu valley. “Look around, the Kumari home is intact.
There is a little crack on the other side, but otherwise nothing has happened,” she told AFP in Kathmandu.
“Even inside, nothing has fallen down, everything is fine.”
The Kumari, a pre-pubescent Newar girl, lives in isolation in her small palace and emerges only on feast days when she is paraded through Kathmandu in ceremonial dress. Full story...
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As the earth shook, the ancient temples and statues that packed the square collapsed, sending a massive cloud of rubble and dust into the air. But the home of the living goddess, or Kumari, escaped with just a few cracks.
“She protected us,” said Durga Shakya, the 55-year-old caretaker of the Kumari house, who like all her entourage is from the Newar community indigenous to the Kathmandu valley. “Look around, the Kumari home is intact.
There is a little crack on the other side, but otherwise nothing has happened,” she told AFP in Kathmandu.
“Even inside, nothing has fallen down, everything is fine.”
The Kumari, a pre-pubescent Newar girl, lives in isolation in her small palace and emerges only on feast days when she is paraded through Kathmandu in ceremonial dress. Full story...
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