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Frog wedding breaks the drought
A FROG couple have been joined in holy Hindu matrimony by Indian villagers hoping the custom will bring rain.
With five priests chanting scriptures, a frog groom named Punarvasu and his amphibian bride Pushala were married by villagers hoping to summon monsoon rains to their drought-stricken district.
Organiser Nandkumar Pawar says thousands of people gathered on Thursday in a massive tent in Patkhal village for the lavish wedding banquet.
He said on Saturday that the frogs were decorated with flowers and smeared with turmeric, a holy and auspicious ointment. A brass band played Bollywood film songs while the priests blessed the frogs.
The region in Maharashtra state is 400km southeast of Mumbai, India's financial capital.
Frog weddings are practiced in some parts of India and other areas of South Asia.
Well at least they didn't do something stupid.
Like trying to get bond yields down by driving the country into a deep fucking economic depression with 50% youth unemployment.
If only our idiot western economists practiced more frog weddings.
I've told this one in other places, but it's right for here too. In the Altiplano highlands of Peru and Bolivia, the rainy season is vital because if it doesn't arrive on time, there's not enough growing season for the potato crop before the frosts set in and ruin any crops left in the ground. So if the rains are late arriving it's serious stuff. The shamans in the region use frogs in ceremony to bring on the rains if late, because they've noticed that just before it rains, frogs croak. The connection between frogs croaking and the onset of rain is so obvious, it stands to reason that if you want to make it rain you find a frog and make it croak, thus attracting the rain.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the Hindu concept of purely subjective reality (i.e. it really is all in the mind) makes the Frog wedding logical.
So you are saying Western economists also adhere to the Hindu concept of purely subjective reality. Ignore empirical evidence, and do silly things because of your poorly-thought-out ideology and a couple formulas that have no basis in reality.
ReplyDeleteI understand now. I understand completely.