Tag: “Religious Festivals”

26 photos found.

  1. Painstaking

    A family member getting pierced for the pilgrimage to the temple. The container is a small milk pot pierced into the skin.

  2. Tension

    Pulling a heavy chariot to the temple as an offering. A painful looking process.

  3. Sweet Dreams

    Young girl takes a nap during the colorful festivities

  4. Weak in the Knees

    A woman is overtaken with emotion/spirituality during Thaipusam and faints. The elder women care for her.

  5. Spilt Milk

    Milk spills out of the milk pots that are being carried as offerings.

  6. Orange Piercing

    During Thaipusam, the piercing burdens were weighted down with offereings of fruit.

  7. Kavati

    A man carrying the burden of a kavati for his family.

  8. Feeling Green?

    Thaipusam Festival - fruit hangs from people's backs pierced into the flesh.

  9. Fiesta de la Cruz

    In the first few days of May, Peruvians celebrate la Fiesta de la Cruz--the Festival of the Cross. Long processions, including these men in a local costume, carry the cross through the streets.

  10. Mermaid friends, Mermaid parade, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New

    Even children love getting involved in the parade and costume fun. Here a group of friends are dressed as little mermaids and are happy to be part of the parade.