Their name means "People of the Lion" because their race began with an Indian princess who mated with a lion (dont try this at home!),- they have been around for more than 3000 years and they have history books to prove it ! ..the Sinful Sinhala had a long series of Kings who became king by killing the one before them, usually their dads, and since this was bad and sinful according to Buddhism, they made really big Buddhist temples to say they were sorry and reverse the sin.
They led ancient irrigation and architecture, built beautiful fortresses and brought torture to a fine art in the region.
Discover the sinful details of their savage armies, colorful gods, scary demons, somewhat small elephants and (of course!) their big big old temples.
Find out how one king plucked his step brothers eyes out, and another one had his dad cemented into a wall, and discover the truth about naughty Queen Anula who had thirty husbands poisoned just to get at the Sinhala throne! Vote for your number one Cruelest Buddhist King and find out how to poke an elephant where it counts! Learn about the country with the most snake bites in the world and nice recipes for cooking snake, and bat, and turtle, and anything that crawls, slithers, or creeps along the island as the islanders do!
History has REALLY never been so horrible!
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