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...last week in Katmandu, capital of the kingdom of Nepal, the goddess Kumari burst into tears. She begged her mother to take her home from the big white plastered brick house behind the old city palace-home from the priests and the prayers, the worshipers, handmaidens and other perquisites of divinity. For the life of a goddess is a strange and painful thing-especially when one is only four years...
...young for good reason. Hindu and Buddhist tradition decree that Nepal's living goddess Kumari (meaning virgin) may never shed blood in herself or another; obviously, she must be replaced by another young girl when she reaches puberty. Black-eyed, pony-tailed little Laksmi, daughter of a goldsmith, was chosen from a field of six final contestants by a committee of priests who had scrutinized the girls' horoscopes and their bodies, for the goddess must be free of blemishes, birthmarks, scars or scratches. The goddess must also be brave; the final test was to shut the children...
...veteran of four previous husbands in 22 years, Love Goddess Rita Hayworth, 42, tearlessly shed the latest incumbent, Writer-Producer James Hill, because he was disparaging ("He said I was not a nice woman in too loud a voice") and aloof ("He would come home and go straight to his room...
...Prose has been my livelihood," writes Robert Graves in The White Goddess, "but I have used it as a means of sharpening my sense of the altogether different nature of poetry." The author's wish is clear: to be judged for his poetry, not for the 70 or so books of excellent autobiography, historical fiction, criticism, classical scholarship and translations from several languages that he has written in the past 40 years. Using A. E. Housman's litmus for a true poem ("Does it make the hairs of one's chin bristle if one repeats it silently...
...Girl functions in the U.S. as a kind of goddess, Cox reasons, then Protestant theologians should be on their guard against this new idolatry. "Why has Protestantism kept its attention obsessively fastened on the development of Mariolatry in Catholicism and not noticed the sinister rise of this vampirelike cult of The Girl in our society...