Fake Iceicle sends a ‘Shiva’ through worshippers .
An unanticipated benefit of alleged “Global warming” is that it may help reduce the diversity of backwardness in the "community", as this case shows:
The authorities have ordered an inquiry into “malpractice” allegations at one of the holiest shrines of the Hindu faith where for years an upside down iceicle has been worshipped as a symbol of ‘Shiva’ the God of Destruction.
Community members claim that the stalagmite is a phallic fertility ‘lingam’ (literally ‘penis’
– comprised of an upside down iceicle which is said to rise up naturally each year from dripping water that freezes on the ground.
Every year, thousands of worldwide pilgrims defy death threats from locals subscribing to a well known peace religion, to visit the remote shrine of their God Shiva’s icy phallus sited near the Pakistan border of Kashmir.
Shiva the God of Destruction has now been emasculated by a warm spell .
Perhaps due to a Global-Warming induced lack of water and insufficiently cold temperatures in the mountains, this year the stalagmite has been unable to rise to the occasion to cause awe-struck wonderment among the gullible worshippers at the Shiva centre.
Disappointed pilgrims to the shrine say that a fake ice stalagmite has been now installed at the site because the existing one is too small.
The fake lingam is said to be made of compacted snow, an unsatisfying crushed ice “slushy” rather than a natural ice lolly.
“I am 100% convinced the Shiva lingam has been artificially formed and It's made of soft snow and not of naturally formed ice” says Praveen Kumar (quoted in the link).
The belief in question, is so highly respected amongst some, that a retired High Court Judge has been invited to see if the holy lolly is indeed tinier and under endowed, than the simple minded ice phallus worshippers have come to expect.
A Government Minister is to investigate the allegations that a man-made snowman stalagmite was placed in the cave after the naturally occurring one failed to materialise.
Although it is sad? that a lack of ice has managed to send a ‘Shiva’ through the community ; it supports the notion that Global warming may not be all bad.
Global warming is demonstrably beneficial if rising temperatures ensure that naturally occurring iceicles are no longer there to be worshipped by simple minded members of the ethnic community as God's very own Todger.
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