Phransigars

Origin of the Phransigar

by Dr. Hobart Watson

Once on a time the worlds were infested with a- monstrous demon named Rukt Bij-dana, who devoured mankind as fast as they were created. So gigantic was he, that the deepest pools of the ocean reached no higher than his waist. Kali cut this horrid being in two with her sword, but from every drop of blood that fell to the ground there sprang a new demon. She went on destroying them, till the hellish brood multiplied so fast that she grew hot and tired from her endless task. She paused for a while, and brushed the sweat off of her arms.

Statue said to be Kati or Devi, another protectress of the Phransigar

From this sweat she created two men, to whom she gave a rural, or handkerchief, and commanded them to strangle the demons. When they had slain them all, they offered to return the rumal, but the goddess bade them to keep it and to pass it on to their children, with the goddess's bidding to destroy all who were not part of their tribe.

She presented them with one of her teeth for a pickaxe, one of her ribs for a knife, and the hem of her lower garment for a noose, and ordered them to use the pickaxe to cut and bury the bodies of those they strangled.

White and yellow are the favorite colors of Kali. For this reason, the cloths for strangling are always of these colors.Some of her worshippers will wear no other colors.

Phransigars The Strangler Cult

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