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"LEGEND HAS IT, TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (give or take), a Nepalese farmer named Bhagwan Chaudhary had a dream. As with all legends and myths, the details get a little murky. Offer blood to Gadhimai and your problems will be solved, suffering vanquished. What did “offer blood” mean exactly? Some believe the goddess wanted blood a la human sacrifice. Supernatural beings have never been much for clarity. Was she requesting ritual murder or Bhagwan’s self-annihilation? The latter is a surefire way to vanquish personal suffering. He either convinced her a donation would suffice, cutting himself in five places for some blood-letting, or proposed a worthy substitute, or both. Whatever the case, animal sacrifice became the norm at the party in her honor. Chaudhary’s descendants have served in leadership positions at the Gadhimai temple ever since.
The Gadhimai Festival is held every five years in Bariyarpur, Nepal (approx. 160 km south of Kathmandu). Millions flock there to give the Hindu goddess of power her due. Facts and figures are as nebulous as the legend that spawned the festival. Nobody knows how many animals died in 2009. I’ve read anywhere from 15,000 to 30,000 buffaloes and 300,000 to 500,000 birds, goats, rats, and sheep. I think someone pulled figures out of their hindquarters and passed them around like a baton. Consider the outcry from animal rights groups and the shock value attached to such high numbers. I’m not saying they’re wrong, only that there were ulterior motives to over and under-reporting. Either way, thousands were put down on November 24th and 25th of 2009."
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