Guatemala, Solola Department, San Pedro la Laguna, Catholic procession of the Virgin of Carmen. Women in traditional Mayan dress with embroidered white lmantillas over their heads.

Guatemala, Solola Department, San Pedro la Laguna, Catholic procession of the Virgin of Carmen. Women in traditional Mayan dress with white mantillas over their heads. Women carry the image of the Vi...

Guatemala, Solola Department, San Pedro la Laguna, Women carry the image of the Virgin in the Catholic procession of the Virgin of Carmen.

Guatemala, Solola Department, San Pedro la Laguna, Catholic procession of the Virgin of Carmen. Women in traditional Mayan dress with white mantillas over their heads.

Guatemala, Solola Department, San Pedro la Laguna, Catholic procession of the Virgin of Carmen. Women in traditional Mayan dress with white mantillas over their heads.

Guatemala, Solola Department, San Pedro la Laguna, Women carry the image of the Virgin in the Catholic procession of the Virgin of Carmen.

Guatemala, El Quiche Department, Chichicastenango, A Quiche Mayan man prepares an offering of candles to the Mayan gods on the steps of the Church of Santo Tomas. The church was built about 1545 A.D....

Israel, Jerusalem, Christian pilgrims preparing to walk the Via Dolorosa with a wooden cross begin at the Convent of the Sisters of Zion in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. The Old City of Jerusale...

Israel, Jerusalem, The crest with the Franciscan seal on the doors of the Convent of the Sisters of Zion in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Old City and its Walls is a UNESCO Worl...

Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter, A bar mitzvah procession moves toward the entrance to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.

Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter, A bar mitzvah procession moves toward the entrance to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Musicians with kudu horn shofars play the saxophone whle participants dance...

Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter, A bar mitzvah procession moves toward the entrance to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. One young boy carries the Torah scrolls.

Customised coffins made to celebrate the life of the deceased.

Buryat shaman tethering post or serge representing the tree of life.

Parade toward the Thangka and onlookers at a silken Thangka Buddhist ceremony for the cycle of life

Parade toward the Thangka and onlookers at a silken Thangka Buddhist ceremony for the cycle of life with massive brightly colourd hillside Buddha image

Wide angled view looking down massive colourful image of buddha to Parade toward the Thangka with onlookers at a silken Thangka Buddhist ceremony for the cycle of life

Wide angled view looking down massive colourful image of buddha to Parade toward the Thangka with onlookers at a silken Thangka Buddhist ceremony for the cycle of life