[GeronL]

Not really interested in that stuff but “gave birth while hanging from a tree” was not that unusual for the time with difficult births. Apparently they did stuff like that all over Asia.

[Usagi_yo]

Every year thousands of Buddhists make a holy pilgrimage to Lumbini - long identified as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha ...

Good Buddhists don't worship Buddha, nor do they pray to him. He's not a god.