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Post by Enchant on Jun 8, 2006 12:16:03 GMT -5
Woman marries her King....King Cobra snake that is... A woman who fell in love with a snake has reportedly married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India's Orissa state. Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar. Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come out of a nearby ant hill where it lives, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said. A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom. "Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar way," Das, 30, told the agency. "Whenever I put milk near the ant hill where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink. "I always get to see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me," she added. Villagers welcomed the wedding in the belief it would bring good fortune and laid on a feast for the big day. Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction. Das, from a lower caste, converted to the animal-loving vegetarian Vaishnav sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the cobra, the world's largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres. "I am happy," said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off. "Bimbala was ill," Bhoi told local OTV channel. "We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake ... she was cured. That made her fall in love." Das has moved into a hut built close to the ant hill since the wedding. Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. SourceCan you say ewww or why?
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 12:18:15 GMT -5
How can you say such things, Piffy? They're going to have the most adorable babies ever! XD Ahahaha...
To each your own I suppose, though I admit that if I was to marry a snake I'd pick one that wouldn't kill me in one bite.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Aug 8, 2006 15:58:55 GMT -5
i totallya gree with zumi on that one lol..but hey if people cna do that if they are relaly "in love' whyt he hell not.........poor girl won't have kids though.....OMG what if she thought it was a male and it turns out to be a female?
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Post by Aaron on Aug 9, 2006 14:19:51 GMT -5
-joke everyone- well I guess now we can have gay marriage's and such since well we already have the people marrying animals. -nods- see I told ya wouldn't bring about this lol.
That is messed up. Can love the snake but marriage is a bit to far.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Aug 9, 2006 21:59:13 GMT -5
well you know how they say america is the land of the free? I guess copared to other places we're not lmao
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Post by Mistress Rell on Aug 10, 2006 8:15:28 GMT -5
This may sound funny to all of you, but if you read what Enchant wrote;
'Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.'
To Western culture and religion this would be no different than a woman saying that she has 'married' God by becoming a nun. Hindu are very spiritual. They're patheon of Gods and Goddess's are incredible, and they have no hangups reguarding sex.
Personally I think that the West could learn alot from them.
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Post by Aaron on Aug 10, 2006 12:23:36 GMT -5
-shrugs- okays. But the whole adding that a person married a dog? What value is that? Plus can't really talk to it..there isn't any feedback.
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Post by Mistress Rell on Aug 10, 2006 16:11:19 GMT -5
It's a spiritual thing Aaron. Certain animals are held in the highest regards in the Hindu world. In her eyes she has married a God, or more precicly, his representative. This is considered a very high honor to Hindu followers,
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Aug 13, 2006 13:59:49 GMT -5
Rell is right that girl as good as just became a demi-god..if you will, or at least a member of her people's own theology. Frankly I don't see a problem wiht it.
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