THE LIVING GODDESS KUMARI I NEPAL

KATHMANDU: We start our tour of Nepal from the capital Kathmandu. Kathmandu is a city where we can get the exact answer to the question of how interesting a place can be. Almost all of the city with a population of 1.5 million is under protection by the UNESCO world heritage list. We start our tour of the city from Kathmandu Durbar Square, which is at the top of this list. There are Durbar squares in each of the three old cities of Kathmandu valley, namely Kathmandu, Patan and Baktabur. …. Durbar ; It means palace. Therefore, this is the palace square where the city's palaces were ruled from ancient times to the present. But there are not only palaces here, thousands of large and small Hindu temples, the home of the Living goddess Kumari.
Entrance to the city's Durbar square is paid for tourists. You can enter the square by paying about 10 dollars. The most important structure of the square today is Kumari Bahal, the house of the living goddess Kumari. Here we can observe a somewhat mysterious and somewhat sad tradition. The little girl child, the Goddess called Kumari, who has countless gods and goddesses, a god living in Hinduism and Nepal, lives in this house. …. As strange as it may seem to us, this is a fact here….. At the age of 4, Kumari is selected from among girls of a certain lineage, with certain physical characteristics, after rigorous tests, and lives in this house as Kumari until her adolescence. After living in this house, he can only leave this house for a few hours a few times a year. His longest debut is at the Indra Jatra festival. He is walked among the people on a throne and his feet never touch the ground. The same is true in the house, and the kuma is always carried on the lap, and when he sits down, a piece of stone or wood is placed under his feet so that his feet do not touch the ground. …. Several times a day, Kumari greets visitors for a few minutes from the window in the courtyard of his house, for locals and for Hindus from other parts of the world. … We also come across this ceremony and see the gambling, but we cannot view it because it is forbidden to take pictures. But Kumari, who went out with the Idra Jatra festival, can be seen at that time. Again, Kumari, whose feet never touch the ground, is walked around the people for a few hours on a throne….. There is also a kumari in the city of Patan and it is chosen by the same methods. Kumari in Patan city is the second most important living goddess for Hindus and Buddhists. We can view the Patan Kumari.
PATAN KUMARI: Tourists of Hindu faith come and bless themselves in this Kumari. The difference between the Kumari of Kathmandu and the Kumari of Kathmandu, who never left the house during the time of the goddess, and whose feet were never touched to the ground, only those who belong to the 1st Caste, namely King etc. to find. We continue to visit Kathmandu Durbar Square. In one corner of the square, women sit and sing hymns.
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