A Nepalese girl puts her fingers in her ears as soldiers prepare to sacrifice a goat on the ninth day of the Hindu Dashain Festival in Kathmandu on October 5, 2011. Dashain is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepalese calendar and celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Many victory stories are told including the Ramayan, where the lord Ram after a big struggle slaughtered Ravana, the fiendish king of demons and Durga slaying the terrible demon Mahisasur, who terrorised the earth in the guise of a brutal water buffalo. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)
