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   From: user@this.com   
      
   asianage.com   
      
   By R. Bhagwan Singh   
      
   Chennai, March 5: Over 1,000 lambs and goats were sacrificed at a Kali   
   temple in Tiruchy, Tamil Nadu, and the chief priest drank the blood of   
   some of them on Thursday in fulfilment of vows taken by believers,   
   according to reports reaching here.   
      
   This is the first major temple festival involving the sacrifice of   
   animals and fowl since the Jayalalitha government lifted its ban on   
   such slaughter a fortnight ago. The ban was lifted because the state   
   government did not want to risk the wrath of rural voters, who do not   
   like attempts to disrupt traditional religious rituals.   
      
   In fact, in fulfilment of a 200-year-old practice that was   
   scrupulously followed even by the British   
      
   rulers, the first sacrificial goat was offered by the state   
   administration, represented by local revenue officials. After the   
   government’s animal was sacrificed, chief priest Sivakumar drank its   
   blood to symbolise the acceptance of the offering by the deity,   
   Kuzhumayi Amman, a form of Goddess Kali. The priest then tasted the   
   blood of 18 other goats sacrificed on behalf of various local heads   
   who have traditional rights of worship at the temple, eyewitnesses   
   said.   
      
      
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