Festivals and Fire Celebrations

Dramatic representations of fire festivals across Europe, highlighting communal gatherings around fires, celebrating traditional rituals and customs.

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The Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) supporters raise slogans demanding a separate Greater Tipraland state for tribals, in Bermuda Ashram Para. Agratala. Tripura, India.
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Eternal flame on mountain Chimera or Yanartash. Fragment. Historical legendary monument. Cirali, Turkey. Eternal flame on mountain Chimera or Yanartash. Fragment
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A bundle of candles at a Buddhist temple in Taiwan is so hot that rivultes of molten red wax are dripping off the sides.
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Flames of Olympic Cauldron designed by Thomas Heatherwick; London, England, United Kingdom
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Chinese Dragons in ceremony in Chinatown in San Francisco, California, USA
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Close-up of fire on the wall at a memorial
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Priest performing aarti, keshi ghat, mathura, uttar pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox
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DEU Saxony Radebeul The traditional Karl May Festival attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year. Special attractions are the traditional dances of guest Indian ensembles
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Creamation on the Ganges John Newcomb, Watercolor, 2007
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Danafojura the oldest masquerade in Oyo Kingdom, performs inside a burning fire at the World Sango Festival which is an annual festival held among the Yoruba people in honor of Sango, a thunder and fire deity who was a warrior and the third king of the Oyo Empire after succeeding Ajaka his elder brother. The festival plays host to visitors from all over the country and followers from foreign countries. Oyo state, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Procession coming down dark lane at Newick Bonfire nightNewick, East Sussex, England. Procession coming down dark lane at Newick Bonfire night
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Easter fire, wooden towers made from spruce trunks and filled with brushwood, cross on top, spectators, tower at inflammation, church St. Leonhard ob Tamsweg far away on hill Tamsweg Lungau Salzburg Austria
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Asia, Indonesia, Bali, Ubud. Corpse burning in sarcophagus during cremation ceremony.
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Nepal, Kathmandu, Hindu Cremation In Pashupatinath Temple. Burning Wood Funeral Pyre With Onlookers On Steps Behind.
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A young Buddhist monk burned himself to death in Saigon's Market Square, to protest the government's religious policies. 1963
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Illuminated lanterns at the anniversary celebration of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, November 19th, 1863; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9th April 2022. People from many parts of the country gathered at the Galle Face Green in astronomical numbers demanding the stepping down of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Government. The protest is expected to last 48 hours straight unless intercepted first. The protest included people from all ethnicitys and of all social statuses.
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Fireworks on Hoan Kien Lake celebrating Vietnamese New Year (Tet)Tet or Tet Nguyen Dan is New Year in Vietnam and the most important of Vietnams Festivals. Tet lasts for seven days and is usually at the end of January or beginning of February on the night of the full moon. It is a time for families to celebrate renewal and the welcoming of ancestral spirits into the household.
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Lighting procession to the Kreuzberg on Ascension Day in Weingarten Württ. Every year there is an evening light procession to the Kreuzberg in Weingarten Württembergstatt every year. It takes place on the preliminary of the traditional blood input.
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Start of the fire blessing ceremony at Bumthang Jamba Monastery. Bhutan. September 2013.
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Myanmar (Burma), Sagaing State, Leshi, members of the government of the region light the fuse to set fire to the woodpile in the middle of the dance field
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The Samaritan sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim at Passover
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Snowman figure 'Böögg' on the burning pyre, Spring Festival 'Sechseläuten', Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
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Lighting procession to the Kreuzberg on Ascension Day in Weingarten Württ. Every year there is an evening light procession to the Kreuzberg in Weingarten Württembergstatt every year. It takes place on the preliminary of the traditional blood input.