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INDIA Karnataka, every year a festival takes place around the Yellamma temple in Saundatti and attracts thousand of pilgrims from villages, here is also practizised the Devadasi cult, where young girls are secretly dedicated to the hindu goddess Yellamma, most of the girls end in prostitution, young girl is dressed up in neem leaves for the ceremony / INDIEN Karnataka, jedes Jahr findet in Saundatti das Tempelfest zu Ehren der Goettin Yellamma statt, das Tausende Pilger aus den umliegenden Doerfern anzieht, hier wird der Devadasi Klt praktiziert, heimlich werden junge Maedchen der Hindu Goettin Yellamma geweiht, die Maedchen enden spaeter meistens in der Prostitution, junges Maedchen in einem Kleid aus Niem Blaettern
Joerg Boethling 4 Feb 2005 1704x2454 / 516.1KB
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