Hindus Gather To Perform Controversial Gadhimai Festival Sacrifice

BARIYARPUR, NEPAL – NOVEMBER 28: A group of devotees elevate as a blessing their traditional kukri knifes before the beginning of the animal sacrifices during the celebration of the Gadhimai festival on November 28, 2014 in Bariyarpur, Nepal. Over two million people attended this year’s Gadhimai festival in Nepal’s Bara Disctrict. Held every five years at the Gadhimai temple of Bariyarpur, the festival is the world’s largest slaughter of animals, during which between thousands of water buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens, rats and pigeons are slaughtered in order to please Gadhimai, the Goddess of Power. (Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images)

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