[UA] Uh, what kind of gods are these again?

[Bastien Pilon]

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=13246216&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

"KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Dozens of Nepali women stripped naked and
plowed their fields in west Nepal, hoping to appease the gods and get
some much needed rain, a newspaper report said Sunday.
About 50 women in two villages in Kapilvastu district, 120 miles west
of Kathmandu, resorted to the desperate move at night Friday as days
of prayers and Hindu ceremonies failed to bring rains for the parched
paddy crop, it said.

"This is our last weapon, we used it, and there was light rainfall,"
Nepali daily Rajdhani quoted one of the women as saying.

Although there is no clear religious basis for the practice, some
locals believe such a move could appease the rain gods.

Officials said there was insufficient rain during the June-September
monsoon season this year and vast stretches of land along the southern
plains, Nepal's bread basket, were parched."


-- 
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the
forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom,
no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat
leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett