Saturday, September 7, 2013
Human Skeleton
Tags : Human Skeleton
Human
In Nepalese
language human skeleton is called
''kankal''. The such item is not
supposed to be kept at the residence of Nepalese people. However, when it is
turned into a souvenir piece, it could be kept at the drawing room also as a
rare show piece. But it can be seen at
the non Nepalese residence. Of course, it sounds funny to hear that even
the human skeleton can be made as a souvenir pieces.
Magicians and Tantrics carry all the time
with them human skulls and bones for
purposes of performing magic or tantrict works. As per the custom of the Nepalese community the dead
body is cremated. According to the
Nepalese Hindu or Buddhist custom the dead body
is completely destroy and burnt into ashes. After that the remaining
ashes are thrown into the river which gives the departed soul heavenly peace. While
other communities like those of Christians, Muslims etc. bury their dead body.
Specially in the Nepalese society
and according to the Nepalese
tradition any part of the body
after dead can be bad woman to the human beings. It is also
believed that such things can
destroyed every thing at home
and even people will die.
A decorated human skeleton is expensive
costing about five to eight thousand Nepalese Rupees per piece at the market price. When it
was freely available in the market place
during 1995. But
decorated skeletons of monkey and other animals cost around two to three thousand Nepalese rupees and
they are openly available in the tourist
souvenir handicrafts shops even these days.
Actually these souvenir pieces are not
shown interested by the Asian
tourists. But foreign tourists are much more interested in the decorated human
and animals skeletons These days if some one
interested for the decorated human skeleton souvenir piece and willing pay one million
rupees it is not possible to available in the touristic souvenir shops. So no body wants bare risk for selling those restricted items, a sop woner said.
However, the Nepalese government has
prohibited selling on human
decorated human skeleton and exporting them (human skeleton) out of the country. But artistically
decorated human skeletons was not restricted
for business transaction and
any one can have them as souvenir
pieces.
In early
1995 the decorated human skeletons freely available at handicrafts shops
and tourists souvenir at roadside shops.
These are sold as rare souvenir pieces.
But in these days we can not find decorated human skeleton in the market place .
However, these can be had through secret deals.
During those days there was
no restriction on human skeleton business later it became very strict by the law. The police at
Thankot check post started seriously watching sucn (human Shelton smuggling) and began arrested some people
those who are involve in smuggling of human skulls. The smugglers people are mostly
from the country's Terai belt. The news about
such arrests appeared in the media.
Normally the human skulls vendors sources for human skull are the pyres
sites. They (human skulls smugglers)
collect human skulls from the pyres site and forest areas. It was not a easy
job to smuggle human skeleton and pass
through the check post. Normally they (smugglers) hid those things (human skeletons inside
vegetables sacks and they bring them to Kathmandu market and supply to souvenir makers for
good price. It was a easy way to
earn money.
When human skeletons smugglers
were arrested they were awarded
for 10-years in imprisonment Because of police strictness such cases are not
found in the capital since couple of years, a police sources said.
A decorated
human skull is such a beautiful work of art. The art work
becomes attractive to its
customer. But in Nepal people never keep such thing even a decorated human
skulls as show pieces at home. However decorated animal skulls are kept in
drawing rooms as a souvenir show pieces.
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