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  • A family calls down the spirit of a dead family member with the help of incense at Todos Santos or All Saints Day in Oruro, Bolivia. An altar has been built at home, and it is the father of the dead man who kneels with the incense in front of it. Beside him kneels the widow, and to the right stands the mother. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, build a shrine at home at Todos Santos, decorating it with religious symbols as well as a picture of the deceased and food and drink that he or she liked, and then call down the spirit for a three day visit. During the spirit’s visit, the family and friends chew coca leaves, drink alcohol and eat food together.
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  • A novice monk just after he has been ordained at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination ceremonies in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • On the Monday before his bar mitzvah recital, a Jewish boy in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA, takes part in morning prayers at his Conservative Jewish synagogue. He will also read from the Torah, and before he begins he carries the scrolls round the synagogue. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • A monk shaves the head of a Shan boy during Poy Sang Long, a yearly ceremony at which boys are ordained as novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The shaving takes place inside the Buddhist temple Wat Hua Wiang. Practically every Shan boy goes through this three-day ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • Attendants dance and carry boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • In rememberance of the Buddha, family members dress a boy in princely clothes inside a temple during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • A small Shan orchestra plays in a temple at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • On the final day of the Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, a monk passes the orange shirt over the head of a boy, a signal that he has become a novice monk and may now put on the rest of his orange robes, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • Boys dressed in princely clothes prostrate themselves and show respect to monks inside Wat  Hua Wiang at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The monks are holding the orange robes that the boys will wear when they have become novice monks. The princely clothing is worn in memory of the Buddha who was a prince before becoming a monk. Practically every Shan boy goes through this ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • A boy puts on his princely clothes after a break in the ceremonies at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Attendants carry boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Shan boy gets his head shaved during Poy Sang Long, a ceremony att which boys are ordained as novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • A Shan boy gets his head shaved during Poy Sang Long, a yearly ceremony at which boys are ordained as novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The shaving takes place inside the Buddhist temple Wat Hua Wiang. Practically every Shan boy goes through this three-day ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • Worhisppers receive the consecrated bread known as the Eucharist, at the celebration of mass during the Fiesta del Colaco, in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi.
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  • Attendants carry boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • Three boys dressed up as princes in remembrance of the Buddha stand inside a temple during Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • A boy is dressed up in princely clothes in remembrance of the Buddha at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003. His traditional headress contains female hair and fresh flowers.
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  • A monk receives a group of boys dressed up as princes inside a temple at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • A boy visits his home and prays in front of the family shrine during the Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Song, Thailand. His great grandmother lights candles and places them on the shrine.
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  • A mother captures the moment when a photographer takes a picture of her daughter after she has gone through the shichi-go-san ceremony at the Heian Jingu shrine, in Kyoto, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • A Jewish girl performs her bat mitzvah, her coming of age ceremony, at Temple Avoda, a Reform synagogue, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. The girl carries the holy Torah scrolls through the synagogue  after reading extracts to the congregation. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Two Roma infants and their mothers during a baby dedication ceremony in the Pentecostal church in the village of Valea Seaca in Bacau County, Romania.
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  • Jewish boys wearing kippah, or scullcap, during a girl's bat mitzvah, her coming-of-age ritual, at Temple Avoda, a Reform synagogue, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA.
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  • Devastating April 2015 Nepal Earthquake. Rescue workers on Durbar Square in Patan, Kathmandu Valley, where an ancient temple collapsed. Patan is one of three ancient royal cities in the Kathmandu Valley, with a rich cultural heritage and much old architecture.
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  • Respectful bows from the family and the priest end a shichi-go-san ritual inside the Aoto Jinja shrine in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • On the Monday before his bar mitzvah recital, a Jewish boy in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA, takes part in morning prayers at his Conservative Jewish synagogue. He also reads from the Torah, and afterwards the cantor (to his left) leads the congregation in singing a hymn. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • A shichi-go-san ceremony ends with a miko, a Shinto shrine maiden, producing the music of the gods to impart health and good fortune, in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • After giving her a prayer shawl and blessing, the rabbi talks to a Jewish girl before she goes through her bat mitzvah, her coming-of-age ritual, at her Reform Jewish synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. After this she will enter the synagogue hall to read extracts from the Torah, the holy scriptures, to the congregation. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Guided by her rabbi a Jewish girl practices reading from the Torah, the five books of Moses, in preparation for her bat mitzvah, her coming of age ceremony, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Performing the traditional  horah, where everyone dances in a circle and holds the boy up in a chair, a Jewish boy's bar mitzvah is celebrated the day after the ceremony was held in his Conservative synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. Since the ceremony was performed on a Sabbath the party could not be held on the same day. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • Celebrating the bar mitzvah of a Jewish boy the day after the bar mitzvah ceremony was held in his Conservative synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA.  Since the ceremony was performed on a Sabbath the party could not be held on the same day. In Judaism a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • Boy gets water poured over him after he has been shaved at Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand
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  • The town of Kautokeino, Finnmarksvidda, northern Norway, in wintertime. Its red, wooden church stands in the middle.  The town, which is mainly inhabited by ethnic Sami, is a Nordic centre of Sami culture. For the nomadic reindeer herders, Kautokeino is their winter home. In spring they move with their herds to summer pasture on the Atlantic coast, and in autumn they return to Kautokeino.
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  • A girl and her family in Oruro, Bolivia, buy bread with which to decorate the shrine that they will build at Todos Santo for her dead father who died two years before. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, build a shrine at home at Todos Santos, decorating it with religious symbols as well as a picture of the deceased and food and drink that he or she liked, and then call down the spirit for a three day visit. The bread is a particularly important type of decoration. There are pieces of bread shaped like human beings, representing the dead, and there are also pieces in the shape of various old Inca symbols such as the sun and the moon.
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  • Armed Kombai sentries watch as guests arrive at the site of a sago grub festival in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees, and the sago grub festival, during which large quantities of sago grubs are consumed, is their most important religious rite.
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  • Male guests, all armed with bows and arrows, run into the festival house during a sago grub festival held by a Kombai clan in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees, and the sago grub festival, during which large quantities of sago grubs are consumed, is their most important religious rite.
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  • Armed sentries keep watch as the hosts and their invited guests dance inside the festival house during a sago grub festival held by a Kombai clan in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees, and the sago grub festival, during which large quantities of sago grubs are consumed, is their most important religious rite.
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  • Women with children on their shoulders run into the festival house during a sago grub festival held by a Kombai clan in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees, and the sago grub festival, during which large quantities of sago grubs are consumed, is their most important religious rite.
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  • Kombai men, armed with bows and arrows, dance during a sago grub festival in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees, and the sago grub festival, during which large quantities of sago grubs are consumed, is their most important religious rite.
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  • Kombai men dance with bows and arrows in their hands in the early morning of a sago grub festival in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees, and the sago grub festival, during which large quantities of sago grubs are consumed, is their most important religious rite.
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  • A family holds down infant from balcony to a sculpture of the town's patron saint, San Isidro, for good luck at the Fiesta de San Isidro in Periana, Spain.
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  • El Colacho, the devil incarnate, chases the troublesome village youngsters, trying to hit them with his whip, during the Fiesta del Colacho, in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi.
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  • Two Kombai men collect sago grubs found inside a rotten sago palm in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The palm was felled seven weeks earlier, wrapped in leaves and then left to rot in order for the scarab beetle to come and lay its eggs inside. The grubs will be consumed during a a sago grub festival. This is the most important religious rite of the Kombai, who are a so-called treehouse people, building thir homes high up in the trees.
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  • Kombai men collect sago grubs found inside a rotten sago palm in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The palm was felled seven weeks earlier, wrapped in leaves and then left to rot in order for the scarab beetle to come and lay its eggs inside. The grubs will be consumed during a a sago grub festival. This is the most important religious rite of the Kombai, who are a so-called treehouse people, building thir homes high up in the trees.
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  • Bread figurines representing dead family members for sale at Todos Santos in Oruro, Bolivia. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, build a shrine at home at Todos Santos, decorating it with religious symbols as well as a picture of the deceased and food and drink that he or she liked, and then call down the spirit for a three day visit. The bread is particularly important. There are pieces of bread shaped like human beings, representing the dead, and there are also pieces with the shape of various old Inca symbols such as the sun and the moon.
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