Posted on 11/07/2021 12:49:45 PM PST by caww
The manure is brought to the local temple on tractor trolleys, before a priest performs a 'blessing ritual'........ . After that, the dung is dumped in an open area -- with men and boys wading in to prepare their weapons for the battle ahead.
People flock to Gumatapura from far-flung cities each year, and for those in attendance, the messy battle is as much about fun as it is about the perceived health benefits.
“If they have a disease, it will get cured,” said Mahesh, a farmer at Saturday’s festival......Members of Modi’s party have touted the use of cow urine to prevent and cure COVID-19 and other ailments.
....His government is also looking to encourage the production of toothpaste, shampoos and mosquito repellents from bovine waste.
Some Hindus believe cows and everything they produce is sacred and purify
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You mean scams....and they are just that. My brother and I play with those fools as do others online. Some are experts and can drain those boys own accounts and wipe their businesses out in seconds.
Well actually they don’t...lots of sickness in India.
Watched videos of their street cleaners who’s entire job is cleaning up the poop these people do in the streets. Little old ladies going down the poop wall scraping up their waste. It’s a country I’d never go in...the air has got to be awful!
Nobody told Michael Scott about the cow dung fight. He didn’t list it in the positive things about Diwali speech in that episode of The Office.
He did say he would eat monkey brains though...
Better than a Biden dung fight!
There is a lot about their culture that is extremely refined. Terrific food and beautiful aesthetic.
A decent, able and spiritual people.
And yes, I have been there. Decades ago when dung was a central fuel, fertilizer and, yes, in the streets resource.
It sounded like that’s what they are aiming for. I expect it might eventually get through, since government has a fondness for bovine excrement, especially under the Democrats.
When I was a boy, we used to let the pigs into the cow parlor where they ate the dung. Not saying that I would enjoy wallowing in cow dung, but just pointing out that it is grass and grain based, suitable for hogs to eat, fuel to burn and, occasionally, for farm boys in America to fling at each other . . . but only when they were dry.
What’s brown and sounds like a a bell?
Blessed by a priest. Holy s***!
Well you can callIndia a “refined culture” .....and such. But there’s plenty other places to travel do where you don’t have to deal with their filth.
Why is Brandon coming to my mind in all this?
“What a shithole.”
What else does one expect of a country after centuries of foreign invasions and occupation during which looting, massacres and raped occurred.
*rapes
Disgusting and ignorant.
Ya have to wonder what sort of Priest would Bless cow poop....I mean that’s pretty stupid.
.......”What else does one expect of a country after centuries of foreign invasions and occupation during which looting, massacres and raped occurred”.......
Well certainly not rolling in cow poop as a religious ritual.
Biding has an unfair advantage in a dung fight......he's carrying his own amunition in his pants!
Just ask Camilla, he can add the shock and awe sound effects too!
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