The Temple of She: A Feminist's Thoughts on Shakti Kumari, the Mommy Myth, Femicide, Abortion, and The Sixth Extinction
Read a National Geographic article about kumari and shakti, kumari is a living godd ess and means virgin girl; shakti is female power. Nepal literally worships little girls and has been doing so since the 10th century. It's getting harder for them to do so of course, and the entire article is absolutely fascinating, I encourage you to find it, it's called Living Goddesses from the June 2015 edition. Sadly, a kumari stops being a living goddesses as soon as she bleeds, either experienced by their first menstruation or an errand cut. Kumari Shakti or the power of virginity is regarded as the highest power in Nepal I personally practice and advocate continuous cycle. You can do this on birth control (in my case, NuvaRing). The placebo period is completely unnecessary and was thought up by some idiot 1920's type minded gents that somehow figured women not having periods would make them hysterical. Now men having periods would make them hysterical but women not having th