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Nepal: Girls First, Goddesses Later

Nepal: Girls First, Goddesses Later

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Aug 29, 2008
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The Kumari Devi is one of Nepal’s best-known images a young girl wearing a crown with a third eye painted on her forehead who gazes out impassively from an intricately carved wooden window in Kathmandu, drawing tens of thousands of tourists and devotees every year.

Regarded as an incarnation of Taleju Bhawani, the goddess of power and the protector of th…

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