A Woman Marries A Snake In India

[Richard]

A woman who fell in love with a snake has reportedly married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India's Orissa state. Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar. Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come out of a nearby ant hill where it lives, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said. A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom. "Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar way," Das, 30, told the agency. "Whenever I put milk near the ant hill where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink. "I always get to see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me," she added. Villagers welcomed the wedding in the belief it would bring good fortune and laid on a feast for the big day. Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.

Das, from a lower caste, converted to the animal-loving vegetarian Vaishnav sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the cobra, the world's largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres. "I am happy," said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off. "Bimbala was ill," Bhoi told local OTV channel. "We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake ... she was cured. That made her fall in love." Das has moved into a hut built close to the ant hill since the wedding. Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

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[Sariel]

[size="3"]Woman marries dolphin[/size] Jerusalem
January 2, 2006

Adv  Sharon Tendler met Cindy 15 years ago. She said it was love at first sight. This week she finally took the plunge and proposed. The lucky "guy" plunged right back.
In a modest ceremony at Dolphin Reef in the southern Israeli port of Eilat, Tendler, a 41-year-old British citizen, apparently became the world's first person to "marry" a dolphin.
Dressed in a white dress, a veil and pink flowers in her hair, Tendler got down on one knee on the dock and gave Cindy a kiss. And a piece of herring.
"It's not a perverted thing. I do love this dolphin. He's the love of my life," she said Saturday, upon her return to London.
Tendler, who said she imports clothes and promotes rock bands in England, has visited Israel several times a year since first meeting the dolphin.
When asked in the past if she had a boyfriend, she would always reply, "No. I'm going to end up with Cindy." On Wednesday, she made it official, sort of. While she acknowledged the "wedding" had no legal bearing she did say it reflected her deep feelings toward the bottlenosed, 35-year-old object of her affection.
"It's not a bad thing. It just something that we did because I love him, but not in the way that you love a man. It's just a pure love that I have for this animal," she said.
While she still kept open the option of "marrying human" at some stage, she said for now she was strictly a "one-dolphin woman".
She's hardly the jealous type, though.
"He will still play with all the other girls there," she said, of their prenuptial agreement. "I hope he has a lot of baby dolphins with the other dolphins. The more dolphins the better."
- AP
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/woma...39590.html

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The place of the Naga Pantha [Serpent Cult] in Bharat is widespread and the Kobara especially is worshipped. I feel this Human Woman and Snake marriage is connected to the New World Religion and also symbolises the merging of Mammalian DNA with Reptilian DNA.

[PurpleParrot]

Yes I think you're right on that--the merging of mammalian and reptilian DNA. For some odd reason thats been a repeated theme being told to me the past few days in different forms.

It is quite crazy and laughable but then I could understand it..not sure if I could truly sympathize with these women.

I also had thought that it has something to do with bestiality though sex with the animals weren't mentioned.

Sometimes I think snakes are also phallic symbols.

I"m surprised 2000 people showed up to the snake marriage.

I wonder how many showed up to the dolphin one!!!

 

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I love India.What an amazing and complex country. The Varna Riti [Caste System] is questionable but apart from that India is an a beautiful country with immense Spirituality and the level of intelligence there is awesome.

[PurpleParrot]

You should visit India sometime then!! :o) Maybe you will tap into all those time streams when you were there! :o) Maybe you will even open up some genetics or close some off or something...well I would like to think something positive would be the outcome of this trip.

I have not been to Orissa where the snake marriage has occurred...Odissi dance is really beautiful to watch...but arduous to perform.

Does the word Cobra stem from Kobara?

peace

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I used to have friends in Delphi.In regards to opening up and closing down certain Genetic Streams, imagine opening up the Lemurian Reptilian DNA Genetic Stream. :lol:People would think you were a Sanpa or Naga!Yes the word 'Kobara' means 'Cobra' and yes 'Kobara' comes from the Sanskrit and was used in the Hindi.

[Richard]

Hmmm…snakes and dolphins. What will women be marrying next. :think:

[Octahedron]

Next, if a man will marry a crocodile I'll eat my hat. :P

[Richard]

I think that already happened when Bill Clinton married Hilary. P-LOL