Your beliefs can rule your life sometimes.

Your beliefs can rule your life sometimes. Even when they are thousands years old, you still allow them to take over you. Some of the justifications may sound logical, and must have been relevant to that era and time, but since there is so much progress in the area of sanitation and personal hygiene, many people still put restrictions on women while they are menstruating. They are forbidden from entering the temples, they are prohibited to touch sacred objects. They are made to feel that there is something wrong with them during those days. People who believe in this don't even realise how can God or goddesses become unclean or polluted if a menstruating women touches them. ‪Womanhood is a gift from nature to females and they should cherish it and feel proud about it, shame or guilt should not be associated with gender. This practice of seclusion of women in this way due to some biological processes associated with their gender should certainly stop. Society should get rid of all these types of customs and rituals. We have come very far from those medieval times.
It's sheer irony that even goddess is not spared, they are not allowed inside the temple during their menstruating days. Even goddesses are not spared the burden of menstrual taboos. The idols of goddesses are kept away from temples during their menstrual cycle. The temples of goddess Kamakhya in Guwahati and Maa Parvati at the Chengannur Mahadeva Temple in Kerala remain closed for three days at specific times of the year, unlike most other temples. These menstruating idols of India are said to bleed red during that period, thus prompting the temple authorities to cut off access to the goddess.

At the Chengannur Mahadeva Temple in Kerala, Goddess Parvati menstruates and it is the duty of the head priest to watch out for blood stains on her clothing every morning. Maa Parvati and Lord Shiva are the presiding deities of the temple, but during those three days of menstruation, she is taken out of the inner sanctum, much like we women are not allowed in there during our days of menstruation. When a ‘blood stain' is seen, the wife of the Supreme Priest of Sabarimala is called upon to confirm if the Devi is indeed menstruating. If yes, then Parvati's idol is shifted into a small room off the sanctum sanctorum and the temple remains closed for four days.

The goddess is left alone for these three days, except for a couple of women related to the priests who sleep outside the chamber where she is kept. On the afternoon of the third day, some women visit her, dress her in old clothes and prepare her for the ritual river dipping and ceremony on the fourth day. Surprisingly enough the bloodied menstrual cloth of the goddess is auctioned off each time and fetches a very high price. Similarly, the Ambubachi Mela is held every year in Guwahati for the Goddess Kamakhya in the month of aashad when the goddess is supposed to bleed. Even here, during those three days, the temple remains closed while the nearby Brahmaputra river leeches red. The holy water is distributed on the fourth day.
Jai Maa AdiShakti !