2023-09-07 08:46:31
The controversial Agri sect in Varanasi, India’s “spiritual capital”. (Schematic / Dazhi / Associated Press)
In the oldest city in human history, the mysterious sect of “eating corpses” still exists. American filmmaker Dakota Wint visits India’s “spiritual capital” Varanasi to document life in the Aghori, or Aghora, which is condemned by mainstream Hinduism. Monks will walk along the Ganges and look for corpses to take and eat.
A monk who had just removed the skull from the corpse said that human skulls can be used to ward off and exorcise evil spirits. As long as the skulls are used for rituals, the evil spirits will leave. Another monk confessed that he tried cannibalism for the first time at the age of 14, holding up a skull called kapala in his hand and saying, “This can be used for eating, drinking tea and drinking, and doing everything.”
The tour guide Kashi Baba (Kashi Baba) told Wentz that when the “Agri season” comes, you can meet Agri believers who don’t usually appear by the Ganges, stand near the corpse and meditate once more, and then take the corpse away Leave in one piece, eat elsewhere, or leave following drinking 3 Ganges waters, and then come back to meditate.
Although Agri advocates a life without mistakes, “human flesh can provide spiritual help and anti-aging”, eating raw corpses, and stripping naked in crematoriums in order to get rid of “8 major constraints” such as sexual desire, made them considered by mainstream Hinduism. Some people criticized Agri for violating his vow to “eat only corpses provided by volunteers”.
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