Tag: “Religious Pilgrimage”

21 photos found.

  1. Feeling Green?

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

  2. hill of Crosses (4)

    Between Klaipeda and Vilnius there lays the 'Mecca of Lithuania', the hill of crosses. Attempts to detroy the pilgrimage spot proved the hill of crosses indestructable.

  3. Spilt Milk

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

  4. Whirling Darvishes of Galata Mevlevihanesi

  5. Painstaking

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

  6. Orange Piercing

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

  7. Deep in Thought

    A Hindu man showing his dedication to Murukan with a large piercing through his mouth.

  8. Tension

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

  9. Sweet Dreams

    Young girl takes a nap during the colorful festivities

  10. Kavati

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