2007-05-20 09:53:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
*** g93 11/8 p. 29 Watching the World ***
Every day about 1,000 worshipers and some 70 tourists visit the Karni Mata temple in Deshnoke, India. Why? In that temple about 300 rats roam freely as devotees make their offerings to idols. The rats “are revered and their every need is tended to by doting worshippers,” says New Zealand’s Evening Post. The temple priests and the rats eat from the same bowls and drink the same water. One of the priests claims that “these are not rats, these are messengers of the God, a gift of the goddess to us.” According to the Post, the priest stated that when the temple priests die, they obtain salvation by being reborn as rats. When the rats die, he added, they are reborn as priests."
2007-05-20 09:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by THA 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
India
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0628_040628_tvrats.html
2007-05-20 09:56:07 · answer #2 · answered by puppylove 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India
2007-05-20 09:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is one in Mumbai India
2007-05-20 09:55:43 · answer #4 · answered by djm749 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I read this question right, I believe they are in India.
2007-05-20 09:55:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anthony R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India I think.
2007-05-20 09:55:56 · answer #6 · answered by Mia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India, not sure where but it is in India.
2007-05-20 09:59:43 · answer #7 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the suers
2007-05-20 09:56:36 · answer #8 · answered by Sunset 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
my house. come pray x
2007-05-20 09:55:47 · answer #9 · answered by makatikata 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no where
2007-05-20 09:55:56 · answer #10 · answered by blue7blossom 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋