Chapter 444 [Under the Sacred Ceremony]

The clothes he put on were warm, and the little guy stopped crying. Then the elder would put the child on his knees. He put the hundreds of years old palm leaf scriptures in his hand next to the child, and sat upright, and began to chant the scriptures, turning the pages one by one.

What does the child know? The common scripture is the most difficult language in the world to understand, with strange pronunciations. Chanting the scriptures is almost like singing, which is equivalent to a lullaby. Soon the child will fall asleep. At this time, some lower-ranking priests around him, according to their different status rankings, will also start chanting around the elder.

After reading the scriptures once, Belsinger, the father, came forward and picked up the child, and then the elder would smear a little red paint on the foreheads of both of them. This is also the reason why Indians always have red or yellow paint on their foreheads when they walk out of the temple. Red and yellow are the sacred colors of India. Ordinary people are not allowed to wear red and yellow clothes.

After applying the paint, the elder will give Bel Singh the holy thread he wove while chanting sutras. This thread is to be taken home and placed on the shrine for worship. Bel Singh also has one. Almost every man of the upper caste has his own thread reel. Then the elder took out one from his arms, which had been woven into a very beautiful holy thread, and put it on the child's right wrist.

This ritual of wearing the holy thread is considered to be 1/3 completed. Then the whole family members, including the priests in the temple, began to chant sutras and pray for blessings under the leadership of the elder. It has to be chanted 49 times. Even a strong man is exhausted and thirsty. It takes three hours. Young Master Tagore even changed his diaper once.

After chanting the sutras, Bel Singh personally lit a perpetual lamp for his son and worshipped it in front of the statue of Lord Shiva. This ever-burning lamp has a lot of stories. No matter what level you are at, you light an ever-burning lamp of the same level as your level. There are big and small ones. The largest one is Brahman, the second largest one is Kshatriya, and the third largest one is Vaishya.

And it is determined by your status. Are you the eldest son of the family? Are you the eldest son born by a legitimate woman? Only then are you qualified to light the ever-burning lamp. Everyone must ask, does Indian Brahmanism have such a rule? That's where the score is because India is called a religious museum, and there are hundreds of millions of gods recorded in India.

There are too many gods. Almost every gang, every city, every town, and every village has different habits. In the town of Sinjar, there is a habit of lighting ever-burning lamps. Of course, this cannot be called a habit. It should be called Brahmanism. Every place is different.

But the believers are all the three main gods of Lord Shiva, and even every family has its own unique gods. Even everyone has his own unique gods. Of course, the three main gods are common beliefs. Next, you can believe in whatever god you like.

The Singh family believes in Ganesha, the son of Shiva and the god of wealth in India, so on the Singh family's shrine. There are three main gods, and then Ganesha. After lunch, the Singh family can leave the holy thread wearing ceremony, but the ceremony has not been completed yet and will continue for 49 days.

From this day on, you can hear the sound of chanting and praying 24 hours a day in the Sinjar Temple. The common people know that this is a big family holding a holy thread wearing ceremony for their sons. Spend money to invite Brahmin sacrifices, chant and pray, and the rich and powerful can chant for seven days and seven nights. I didn't expect the Singh family to be so powerful that they actually held it for 49 days.

Although there are many Brahmin sacrifices in the temple, both old and young, but the amount of chanting 24 hours a day, almost 50 days in a row, also makes all the sacrifices in the entire temple lose a layer of skin. Chanting sutras like this every day is tiring enough, but the Bel Singh family is rich, and they took out a full 6 million rupees to donate to your temple for free. Why give you so much money? Isn't it just to ask you to pray for your children?

This is what you, a Brahmin priest, do. It took four days to complete the ceremony of wearing the holy thread. From now on, Master Tagore is called a member of the Kshatriya caste. The authentic aristocratic master enjoys a privileged class in India, even though India has been independent for decades and is known as the world's largest democratic republic.

However, the privileges of the upper castes still exist. 80% of the power in India is in the hands of the upper castes, with Brahmins first, followed by the Kshatriya caste and the Vaishya caste. Occupy your own share in proportion, and the remaining 20% ​​of less important positions will be advertised as a democratic government or a position that can only be occupied by high-quality college students. 80% of the rich people in India are from high castes. Only a few of them can make a name for themselves in the government. There are also precedents of untouchables becoming prime ministers.

But did they become so few and finally get kicked out? The Gandhi family still rules India now, known as the Indian Kennedy family. Of course, the tragedy is much more serious than that of the Kennedy family. But anyway, the ceremony of wearing the holy thread is finally completed. Spending some money to buy a self-psychological comfort is better than anything else.

It was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon when he came back from the temple. Belsinger ordered his family to slaughter the black goat immediately. He had been envious for several days and hadn't eaten it. After three days of eating fruits and stewed curry with rice, his mouth was dry. If he didn't eat some meat, he would be out of his mind.

The master ordered the kitchen to do it immediately. He selected a medium-sized, small male black goat that was not yet one year old and slaughtered it. Because Belsinger liked to eat spicy hot pot, this was known to the whole family, so today's dinner was a hot pot feast. In addition to black goat meat, some other precious hot pot ingredients were made.

At dinner in the evening, the old and young of the Shah family were shocked. To be honest, they had never eaten Chinese spicy hot pot. It was the first time they had eaten it and the first time they saw it. The Shah family was the real landowner. They had some money, but when it came to experience and knowledge, they were lacking.

As a teacher, Belsinger taught his father-in-law and brother-in-law how to cook mutton hotpot. Taste the delicious spicy hotpot, especially the sesame dipping sauce Belsinger likes to use the northern flavor. Sesame paste, chives, fermented bean curd, with fresh black goat meat, you can eat it, it will make you full.

Finally, in the hotpot, cook fresh noodles. The hotpot feast is over. The old couple is happy. Today, they have completed a big thing for their grandson. Taste the spicy hotpot again. After eating and drinking, they happily sit together with their children, grandchildren, sons-in-law and daughters to chat, drink tea and eat fruit.