04-06-2010, 07:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2010, 08:02 PM by Bharatvarsh2.)
Quote:I heard such things, i also heard that people married dogs. I also heard that there are descriptions on hindu temples of people having sex with horses but in manusmirti sex with animals or homosexuality gets punished even only slightly with a "painful wow" and a ritual bath for twice born
Some of these are missionary canards like the sex with horse thing though there probably are couple of depictions of it, this is common to many "heathen" cultures including Hellenic lore. For example Minotaur was the result of a coupling between Pasiphae the wife of Minos & the Cretan bull.
The marriage with tree is done due to a belief that there is some "dosha" for her if she marries her future husband (i.e there is a danger of his dying) so before marrying the man there is like a temporary ceremony with a tree.
The dog thing was one weirdo in Tamilnadu just like that weirdo Christian in South Korea who married his pillow.
I personally don't approve of smoking, drugs, & prostitution either but I think they should all be legal, just because something should be legal doesn't make it moral & just because something is legal (eg: abortion) doesn't make it moral.