Introduction of Nepal Traditional Culture Festival

Goddess Day is a new name for Women's Day on March 8 in recent years. It has injected many commercial elements into the solemn festival and attracted the attention of the younger generation. However, the Goddess Day, which is circulated among Hindus in Nepal, worships the beautiful goddess Katima, but it seems a bit cruel. So today's traditional festival will introduce you to Katima Goddess Festival in Nepal.

The goddess Katimai, whose English name is Gadhimai, is a Hindu goddess of power. The Katima Goddess Festival in Nepal is held every five years. During the two-day festival, millions of Nepalese Hindus will take all kinds of livestock to the Gadhimai temple in a small town in southern Nepal for a large-scale sacrifice, where priests will slaughter these sacrifices with knives.

Later, believers will take these sacrifices back to their hometown and share them during the festival. It is said that this will make the eaters lucky and avoid evil spirits, and bring a good harvest in the future. Hindus firmly believe that animals dedicated to Katimah, the goddess of power, can satisfy their wishes.

Katima Goddess Festival originated 265 years ago. According to Indian mythology, a feudal landlord dreamed that he could get rid of all the sufferings in the world by offering sacrifices to Katie McMillan, the goddess of power. But he chose animals to sacrifice, and this ceremony has been passed down to this day.

The Katima Goddess Festival begins at dawn, and there are mainly five kinds of animals, namely mice, goats, cocks, pigs and pigeons. At the end of the day, thousands of animals and heads piled up on the large grass in front of the temple. Whenever festivals are celebrated, thousands of animals will be slaughtered and sacrificed, and millions of people will watch.

Katima Goddess Festival is the biggest killing festival in the world at present. During the Spring Festival every year, thousands of animals, such as cattle, pigs, sheep and chickens, are slaughtered. In 20 14, Katima Goddess Festival slaughtered 250,000 animals. In 2009, the number of buffalo, goats, chickens and other animals slaughtered reached 500,000, which was watched by more than 5 million people, about 80% of whom came from India.

Due to a large number of sacrifices and beheadings in public, this killing sacrifice in Nepal has attracted many criticisms from animal rights organizations. There are also many demonstrators and armed police to maintain order in the place where the sacrifice was held, but Nepalese officials said that the celebration was a religious tradition and refused to interfere. However, it is also reported that the religious leaders in Nepal have decided to end this century-long ceremony, and the celebration in 20 19 may no longer shed blood.

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