jgrove24.DeleteThis@hotmail.com wrote:
> (1) In six weddings this year in India, two boys and four girls were
> married in tribal-custom ceremonies to dogs, which is believed to
bring
> better luck to children who have been cursed by teething first from
the
> upper jaw ("dog teeth"). (Agence France-Presse reported that the four
> February marriages in Jharkhand state involved, thank goodness, dogs
of
> the opposite gender from the spouse.)
>
> (2) NEW DELHI, April 7 (AFP) - A girl in eastern India has been
married
> to a dog in a bid to ward off tigers.
>
> The tribal wedding took place to the beating of drums in a slum on
the
> outskirts of Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar, the Press Trust of
> India news agency said Thursday quoting witnesses.
>
> Local people said the girl had developed abnormalities in her teeth
> which made her prone to "being devoured by a tiger".
The caste system will need to be modified to reflect the marriages:
Maybe Shudra-Fido or Shudra-Rover?
Brahmans, or priests, were created from the mouth. They were to provide
for the intellectual and spiritual needs of the community. Kshatriyas,
warriors and rulers, were derived from the arms. Their role was to rule
and to protect others. Vaishyas--landowners and merchants--sprang from
the thighs, and were entrusted with the care of commerce and
agriculture. Shudras--artisans and servants--came from the feet. Their
task was to perform all manual labor.
Later conceptualized was a fifth category, "Untouchable" menials,
relegated to carrying out very menial and polluting work related to
bodily decay and dirt. Since 1935 "Untouchables" have been known as
Scheduled Castes, referring to their listing on government rosters, or
schedules. They are also often called by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma)
Gandhi's term Harijans, or "Children of God." Although the term
Untouchable appears in literature produced by these low-ranking castes,
in the 1990s, many politically conscious members of these groups prefer
to refer to themselves as Dalit (see Glossary), a Hindi word meaning
oppressed or downtrodden. According to the 1991 census, there were 138
million Scheduled Caste members in India,<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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