A. Abbas NEPAL. Bhaktapur. An older member of the family applies blood from a sacrificed goat's head to the forehead of young girls in colorful dress. They "marry" a mel tree fruit. Their second marriage wi (...)
ll be to the sun at age 15, before a third and final one to a man. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
A. Abbas SRI LANKA. UDAPUWA village in PUTTALAM district. Hindus celebrate the ATIVILA yearly festival. Inside the main PARTHASARATHA temple, a young man is dressed, painted and made up to play Lord SHIVA i (...)
n an enactment of the RAMAYANA epic in the streets of the village. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
A. Abbas SRI LANKA. UDAPUWA village in PUTTALAM district. Hindus celebrate the ATIVILA yearly festival. Outside the main PARTHASARATHA temple, young boys are covered with yellow mud and coiffed with leaves (...)
to play accompanying animals to Lord SHIVA and his consort PARVATI in an enactment of the RAMAYANA epic in the streets of the village. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
A. Abbas SRI LANKA. UDAPUWA village in PUTTALAM district. Hindus celebrate the ATIVILA yearly festival. Inside the main PARTHASARATHA temple, young boys are covered with yellow mud and coiffed with leaves t (...)
o play accompanying animals to Lord SHIVA and his consort PARVATI in an enactment of the RAMAYANA epic in the streets of the village. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
A. Abbas INDIA. 4. Tamil Nadu State. Tiruchirapalli (Trichy). Sri RANGANATHA SWAMY Hindu temple. The temple elephant blesses a pilgrim with his trunk after receiving a cash donation. The plgrim has offered (...)
her hair to a resident deity and her shaved head is covered by tumeric paste for protection. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
A. Abbas INDONESIA. BALI. The Junjungan village near Ubud, celebrates a special ritual every thirty years, but noone remembers the last one. Ceremony in the main PURA DALEM Hindu temple. Devotees pray behin (...)
d a goose and two dogs which are to be sacrificed to the gods. They are tied up and let to wail, for hours, in the hot sun. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos