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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: UK man's new life as Indian 'goddess' |
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Last Updated: Thursday, 12 April 2007, 12:54 GMT 13:54 UK
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UK man's new life as Indian 'goddess'
By Rajeev Khanna
BBC News, Becharaji
Mr Cooper says he is on good terms with the eunuchs
A British man worshipped as a goddess in India says he wants to stay there after his six-month visa runs out.
Stephen Louis Cooper has become the centre of attraction in the temple town of Becharaji in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Devotees have been lining up to seek his blessings and some of them even take him to be the messenger of Bahuchar Mata, the goddess of Indian eunuchs, addressing him as Ma.
Mr Cooper, who says he has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder, likes to wear a sari and be addressed as a woman.
Hence his new name, Pema, meaning lotus, by which everyone now addresses him.
[This is very bizarre. It reminds me of when the Ewoks worshipped C3PO in Star Wars. ]
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