Indians have always worshipped gods and incarnations of gods, including: the god of good luck, the god of education, the god of life and death. There seem to be many incarnations of God, and this unshakable belief has led to many unique and interesting stories in India. For example, there is a "Holy Rat Temple" in India, where the rats are revered and worshipped, which is a very unique landscape.
The place is in the village of Deshnok, 30 kilometres south of Bikaner, and it was only when the car reached the entrance that it saw a sign that read Welcome to the famous rat temple. The temple's full name is Karnimata Temple, which is also a famous cultural heritage site in India.
From the outside, the temple is unusually clean and odorless. The silver door is engraved with flora and fauna, including a photograph of pigeons and rats fighting for food. There is no ticket, but you must take off your shoes to enter. Most foreign tourists take off their shoes outside the temple, while locals put their shoes inside the door.
Legend has it that in the fourteenth century, there was a Hindu priestess named Karni Marta, who was the incarnation of the goddess Doga. One day, a child from her family died. The child's mother came with her dead son in her arms and begged Karni Marta, hoping to revive her son. Karni Marta immediately went to the underworld to find the Death God Amaroga theory, but Death refused her request because the child's soul had been reincarnated. In a fit of rage, Karni Marta vowed that all members of her clan would be reincarnated as rats immediately after death until they could be reincarnated and born into her clan to remain members of her clan.
Later, Indians believed that after death, people become rats, and rats reincarnate after death. Therefore, in order not to let the souls of their relatives roam around on the ground, a temple was built for these rats, because they believed that the rats that roamed up and down the temple were their dead relatives, and they also believed that they would incarnate as rats to report to the temple after they died. Therefore, the Indians are very respectful of the rats in this temple.
If a rat crawls over your feet, you'll have good luck, and if a white rat touches you, you'll have a lifetime of good luck. But if you accidentally injure a rat in the temple, you have to compensate a rat in sterling silver or gold.
In Carney. Inside the Temple of Marta, the sacrificial room that takes care of the rats eats the same food on the same plate as the rats, and it is said that there are several white rats in the temple, and those are the incarnations of Karni Marta.
For more than 600 years, thousands of devotees have come to the temple every day to worship. There are many meals for the rats every day, milk and sweets and cereals are provided to them, and there are many buckets of fresh milk alone. Even in order to avoid cats from causing trouble, the locals also deliberately built a dense net around the temple to carefully protect the safety of the rats.
Rajasthan people worship rats, and if anyone wants to get engaged or go out, they must first go to the rat temple to worship for three days and three nights. They believe that rats are god's messengers, and as long as they are devout to rats, God will bless both the man and woman who are engaged to be old and happy forever, and will bless those who go far away with the wind and peace.
Many Hindus, students and newlyweds come here to worship and bring many sacred foods to the rats. At night, the rats ate the rest and distributed it to the poor. According to local legend, drinking milk or water that rats have sucked will be blessed from disaster, which is the local people's devotion to rats. What do you think about that?
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