Pratapgarh, June 12: Individuals in a Shuklapur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Partpagarh district have been seen flocking to a neem tree the place a ‘Corona Mata’ temple has come up, to supply prayers searching for safety from the lethal Covid-19 virus.
Villagers claimed, “After witnessing the coronavirus pandemic and its lethal affect which snatched lives of hundreds of individuals, we determined to arrange Corona Mata temple underneath a ‘neem’ tree with full perception that praying to the deity would positively supply respite to folks from the lethal illness.”
A white idol named ‘Corona Mata’ has additionally been positioned on the temple. The idol additionally wears a masks. Individuals have been seen providing prayers and sweets. The temple took form after villagers collected donations for it. Uttar Pradesh: Lady Dies by Suicide After Rape in Aligarh, Case Registered In opposition to Accused.
“Villagers collectively determined and arrange the temple with perception that praying to the deity would positively supply respite to folks from the corona virus, which has claimed so many lives,” a villager mentioned.
Whereas they collect to worship the ‘Corona Mata’ idol and search security for folks in Shuklapur and adjoining areas, the villagers are cautious to observe Covid security protocols. They remind folks to put on masks and preserve social distancing.
A discover on the temple wall the place the idol has been put in bears this discover ‘Use masks, wash your arms and preserve distance. Solely yellow color flowers, fruits, sweets and others are allowed as providing’.
This UP village is just not the primary within the nation to arrange a temple whose diety has been named after the illness. It has been seen, particularly throughout the instances of epidemics or pure disasters, just like the rooster pox, plague or cholera goddesses have been worshipped within the perception they are going to shield the villagers and push back the illness.
Final month a temple in Tamil Nadu’ Coimbatore consecrated a ‘Corona Devi’ idol to guard folks from the lethal Covid-19 virus. Consecrating deities to guard folks from lethal illnesses has been in follow for a few years, mentioned the priest on the Kamatchipuri Adhinam temple. Within the early 1900s when Coimbatore district was hit by the plague, its residents searching for reduction had reportedly supplied prayers on the Plague Mariamman Temple. (ANI
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