Where's my Goddess?
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Wednesday, November 7 at Wednesday, November 07, 2007.
I'd settle for a Princess, but the Egyptian ones are way out of my league....
"BANGALORE, India (AP) - An extensive operation on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs went ``wonderfully well'' doctors said Wednesday as they announced that she was safe and stable after more than 24 hours of surgery...
I'm guessing that if you have to pick anywhere in the developing world, a place that worships a four-armed goddess is a pretty lucky place to be born female and four-armed....The girl, named Lakshmi, had been revered by some in her village as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess....
Children born with deformities in deeply traditional rural parts of India, like the remote village in the northern state of Bihar that Lakshmi hails from, are often viewed as reincarnated gods. The young girl is no different - she is named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth.
'Everybody considers her a goddess at our village,' said her father, Shambhu." (the Guardian)
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