A New Goddess

Given the frequency of news and blog posts on the current presidential campaigns, I wanted to find something other than politics for my first post. There is now a new goddess, in human form, who has been chosen in Nepal. The girl is now three years old and she will hold the post and live in a temple in Katmandu until the time that she reaches puberty, at which time she must relinquish her post. I have to wonder what the mental repercussions of such status would be--these would be some of her most formative years. After she reaches puberty someone is going to have to deal with a girl who has lived some years being treated like a goddess. It sounds like a bad high school (or Nepal's equivalent coming of age) experience waiting to happen. Now that that is out of the way, politics are fair game.