SAINI SUNPURA, India - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday. The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali's facial features are duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes. "She drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time," Ali said.Rural India is deeply superstitious and the little girl is being hailed as a return of the Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, a fiery deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms.
Hmm. Would I want my child to live knowing she will be mercilessly tormented throughout her childhood, considered a freak of nature by society and without the hope of any type of normal life? Perhaps science - if it can't already - will be able to something for her.
What is up with all of the Indian babys and their disformities? But that is Kool!!
ReplyDeleteAt least she wasn't regarded as an evil omen and summarily killed. Could've gone either way, depending on the prevailing superstition.
ReplyDeleteThere's a girl in the midwest, I forget where exactly, whos probably about 18 or 19 now, with two heads. Her torso is extra wide at the top and there are two fully-formed heads. Both heads are completely functioning, so its actually an extreme example of conjoined twins. Two arms, two legs. First saw them on 60 Minutes back around 2000. I wonder whatever happened to them?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous -- I know, right? It seems like the middle east and SW Asia turn out a lot of joined twins and extraordinary birth deformities. Maybe its pollution-related.
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