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The Karni Mata temple in India is full of rats. Big black diseased looking rats. They scuttle around the place, defecating everywhere and drinking from the huge tubs of milk and water the priests put out for them.
Devotees who come to worship at the temple offer the rats sweets and other nice things Eating food or drinking water that previously has been sampled by a rat is considered to be a supreme blessing. But there is one rare blessing that draws the most attention: the sighting of a white rat.
Unlike the rest of the world, where rats are commonly killed for inhabiting the same space as humans, in this temple the rat residents are treated with sincere devotion. The veneration is so complete that if someone accidentally steps on a rat (their god) and kills it, they are expected to buy a gold or silver rat and place it in the temple as atonement.
Can't they see that there is something wrong with a 'god' that can be accidentally stepped on and killed?
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On one hand they worship the rat and on the other hand they kill the rats because destory their crops and rice paddies.
Nearly 500,000 Indian farmers are facing the prospect of famine as a plague of rats that strikes once every 50 years threatens to destroy their crops, rice paddies and village granaries.
Efforts to control the rodent plague in the north East Indian state of Mizoram have led the local government to offer a reward of one rupee (1.2 pence) for every rat tail delivered to the authorities.
More than 400,000 rats have already been killed, creating piles of tails, which have to be counted by officials before reward money can be disbursed to the catchers.
Aboo.Ibraaheem
21-12-2007 @ 7:27 PM
